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SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger unit, Orange/Black |  | Brand: SPOT
Category: Sports
Department: Navigation
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $135.68
as of 9/5/2010 17:37 CDT details
You Save: $64.27 (32%)
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Seller: 7GIFTS
Rating:  18 reviews
Color: Orange/Black
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Size: 3.7-Inchx2.6-Inchx1.0-Inch
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 411-SPOT2-O
Model: SPOT2O
UPC: 893049001219
EAN: 0893049001219
ASIN: B002PHRDO2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Faster GPS acquisition for quicker 911 response | | • | Sends check in message, capable of tracking, sends help assistance message | | • | More satellite detection than any competitive product on the market | | • | Operates under the harshest environments, temperature, altitude | | • | New smaller size, lighter weight |
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Product Description
SPOT 2 Satellite GPS Messenger
Includes all the same functionality as before - now in a smaller, more feature-rich form factor.
30% Smaller
30% Lighter
Faster GPS Aquisition
New Features/Enhancements:
- Advanced GPS
- GPS aquisition light
- Custom message button
- Enhanced antenna performance
- Dedicated tracking button
- Improved tracking performance
- Safety covers over S.O.S. and Help buttons
- Replaceable button covers
- Illuminated buttons
- Message sent indicator light
- Includes armband case
- Recyclable packaging
Features:
SOS: Emergency assistance request sent with your GPS location to GEOS every 5 minutes until batteries die or until cancelled
Help/SPOT Assist: Request help from friends and family every 5 minutes for 1 hour. Up to 10 contacts - phone & email
Check In: Lets contacts know where you are and that you're okay. Attempts to send three messages to help ensure successful transmission. Up to 10 contacts - phone and email. Contacts will receive only 1 message.
Custom Message: Creates custom non-urgent message to send to friends and family
Track Progress: Acquires your GPS location every 10 minutes for 24 hours. Sends each location one time. Previous 2 track points sent with current track point helping ensure consistent recording of movements.
Emergency Response Center: GEOS is operational 7 days/week, 365 days a year, operating out of Houston, TX (2 addl. backup locations)
History Review: Review all Check In, Track Alert SOS, and Help locations via findmespot.com using Google maps for up to 30 days.
Shared Page: You can share messages and locations with others via a personal shared page or SPOT adventures account. Live data viewing up to 7 days, data storage up to 30 days. Can have up to
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 A Potentially Live Saving Product December 8, 2009
hdtravel (USA)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had the Spot 1 and now the Spot 2.
They are just fantastic devices.
I have used mine at many locations around the USA and overseas.
They work very well. No traveler and/or adventurer should ever leave home without one of these.
It is excellent for checking in with 'ok' messages and getting help ( roadside & boating assistance ) and for real emergencies.
The safety and peace of mind that they give you and your loved ones is priceless.
I highly recommend SPOT.
Works Great! July 11, 2010
L. West (NorCal)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had the SPOT 1 that was quite poor in reception and operation. I am very glad I upgraded to the Spot 2 Messenger as it fixes most all the problems with the SPOT 1.
The new SPOT 2 Messenger is MUCH better. For example, on a wilderness use underneath thick foliage, the SPOT 2 worked surprisingly fast. After Power On, I hit the OK button which started blinking. The green GPS LED illuminated in ~15 seconds indicating reception and location was found, while I was under thick trees! The after a few more seconds GPS and Transit LEDs blinked Green together for another 3 seconds. Then only the Green Transmit LED stayed blinking to assure transmission was successful. Everything happened in under 30 seconds from Power On under thick trees. This is far better than up to 20 minutes on the older SPOT 1 in the open, and the SPOT1 never worked under trees.
Overall, the LED lights make more sense now, and a portable plastic instruction card included. The LEDs now shows more feedback on success or fail like described in the example above.
I like the new cover over the Help and 911 buttons. They include a couple spare covers in case they get broken lost, but they're locked down by the back plate anyway.
I'm glad I upgraded. In sum it's a major improvement in every way:
Much Smaller - about the size of a cell phone but rounder
Lighter - less than a cell phone
Better Buttons - now with protecting covers on emergency buttons
Better Indicators with more feedback
Much Faster - seconds versus minutes to receive GPS and transmit messages
Better Reception - works fast and under deep woods, as well as my top Garmin GPS
As for usefulness, last weekend I ran into the Ranger today at one of my favorite MTB parks, Henry Coe just south of San Jose. It's a very big park 10s of miles across and many large mountains and deep woods to get lost in, with rescues often needed.
I mentioned I had a SPOT and asked the Ranger's opinion. He said the SPOT saved two people in just this one park in the last two years - one was a biker who broke his collar bone and helicoptered out. The other was a camper who got appendicitis and couldn't move out of his tent. He said they were both in remote and hidden locations that would have taken a lot of work to find. Instead, he drove exactly to their location in under an hour, and helped the injured to a hospital.
The Ranger said he permitted one biker to put the Ranger's email into biker's SPOT notification list. He finds it fun to watch where the guy is going on Google Earth, each time the biker rides the park, sending OK messages with the SPOT.
Anyway, I was surprised that the SPOT was so useful and the Ranger liked the SPOT so much. I was expecting to hear him say something about false alarms and no real emergencies. Instead the Ranger said the opposite - the SPOT was extremely helpful to them and he wished everyone had it.
I personally find it useful to send OK messages to my wife on my remote mountain biking trips. That way she can see my progress and if I'm running late. It also comforts me to know if something bad happens to me such I can't hit the buttons, she can follow the OK "dots" on the Google Map links and start looking where they end. Other PLBs can't do this.
Spot GPS Messenger testing and first expedition July 19, 2010
Wilderness explorer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased the Spot GPS messenger for use in the Australian Wilderness.
Spot GPS messenger performs better than expected.
During testing:
- Messages were sent & received in under 60 seconds, from Spot power on, to receipt as an SMS on nominated mobile phones;
- Messages were successfully sent despite extensive overhead coverage. Most impressive were the successful messages that transmitted from my living room, with only the skylight offering a view of the sky;
- Spot GPS unit is smaller and lighter than I imagined it would be.
During first expedition:
- Worked well, with first message being sent and successfully received within 60 seconds of power on.
- During the entire trip, all but one message was successfully received by my wife.
- The one message that did not transmit was sent from inside a wet tent, under a soaking wet rain forest canopy.
- Next time in wet conditions I would leave the Spot Messenger running for the full hour of the message cycle and let all three messages get transmitted.
Having a Spot messenger means I can push my expeditions further and into tougher terrain, knowing if things do go pear shaped, I can call for assistance.
Worked flawlessly for tracking across the Eastern Hemisphere July 29, 2010
Eric Westphal (Houston, TX USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently bought the Spot 2 for a trip I was making in my single engine airplane. I was planning to fly from Texas up to the Great White North, thence to Greenland, Iceland, and then down through the UK to Italy and onward to my final destination in Cyprus. The trip went quite well and the Spot worked perfectly. It never missed an update, even in the most remote areas of Greenland. My wife and family really appreciated the steady updates of my location and the OK messages when I landed each day. It was easy to use and, even after 60+ hours of use, I'm still using the original batteries.
I know some users have issues with the emergency response function. Thankfully, I never had to test this, but even if I never used this functionality, it is well worth the acquisition and subscription fees just for family updates while traveling. My wife would also give it the 5 stars! The [...] website is also really nice to have--search for my Adventure there using N456T as a keyword. (By the way, I use a portable ACR 406 MHz ELT for emergency use anyway, so the Spot emergency function is just a third option.)
Preforms at/above what I was expecting. August 17, 2010
Z. Knaus (Misawa, Japan)
Please understand that my review is based on what I purchased the product to do, not what they advertise they can. The primary reason that I bought this product is for it's tracking feature. I take a lot of long motorcycle trips that frequently leave the GSM coverage areas. I rely on the SPOT II to broadcast my last known location should I fail to return/check in on time.
During my research there was a lot of talk about reliability of the emergency features. Since this wasn't the primary reason for me purchasing the SPOT II I didn't concern myself with this. I have over the course of using it attempted to send out some messages that the device said were received but were not. This isn't always the case (and is always significantly worse in city limits) but none the less, I wouldn't set your life in the hands of those messages.
Battery life on this device is a LOT better than what I was expecting. The manual says to replace the Lithium batteries when the indicator turns on or at the two day mark (whichever comes first)... I was riding 15-16hrs/day and I used 1 set of batteries for 4 days before I chose to replace it (the indicator wasn't even on yet).
Overall, I really like this product. There isn't anything else on the market right now that has the same tracking features for nearly the same price so hopefully this kind of device will catch on and develop some competition. Do your research and check the forums, figure out what you want this device to accomplish. It's been a worthwhile purchase for me and if it broke (which I doubt because of solid construction) I'de buy another.
In the future, I'de like for the SPOT to be able to download a KML GPS log straight from the device to my computer with a sampling rate @~3-5sec. This would eliminate my need to carry a second GPS logger (because the every 10m plots I can download from the website just aren't detailed enough).
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