SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker - Generation 4 Overview:

The latest in the line of SPOT rugged satellite GPS messengers, the SPOT Gen 4 keeps you connected even when you’re off-the-grid. Using the power of satellite technology SPOT works virtually anywhere in the world. Check in with your personal and professional networks, send custom messages and let others track your location in real-time via Google Maps. In an emergency, transmit an SOS with your location to GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center.

Spot Gen 4 Features:

• Compact and light weight: Weighing only 3.2 oz. (with batteries), it packs easily for traveling.
• Long Battery Life: choose from Lithium or rechargeable batteries; or line-power the unit through its USB port.
• New Tracking Options: now you can choose the rate of tracking that suits your adventure (2 ½, 5, 10, 30, or 60 minutes).
• Motion Activated Tracking: now your SPOT knows when you’re moving and when you stop to make camp. When SPOT Gen 4 senses you’ve stopped for an extended period of time it will stop sending track messages until you start moving again.
• New Contoured Shape: the new design allows you to easily attach your SPOT to your bag, boat or vehicle allowing SPOT to go wherever you do.

The SPOT Personal Tracker raised the safety factor for millions who took to the outdoors each year. SPOT notifies friends, family or an international rescue coordination center with your GPS location and status based on situation and need - all with the push of a button.

Some reasons why pilots are excited about SPOT:

• You're thirty minutes out from your destination, descending from 11,500' and want someone to pick you up at the airport when you land. There's no way to get any get any cell phone service, but SPOT can send an email or SMS text message immediately via satellite.
• You're planning a trip of a lifetime flying above the Alaskan Highway and deep into Alaska. Your friends and family are both worried and excited about your trip. With SPOT on-board, your exact position can be displayed online, via Google Earth, to anyone you choose. Your friends and family can follow your great journey and feel comfort in knowing exactly where you are at any time.
• You're on that same trip through Alaska and you have an issue that forces an emergency landing. You make a perfect landing on the shore of a river but now you're in the middle of nowhere. Count on SPOT, its' satellite coverage and built-in GPS receiver, to dispatch emergency responders to your exact location.
• You run a flight school with ten airplanes and have rental aircraft going in every direction. With a SPOT in each airplane, you can track the real-time position of all of your aircraft, online 24 hours a day

The SPOT device is something completely new and different from anything else on the market. SPOT allows you to:

SOS / 911: Use this function In the event of a life threatening or other critical emergency to notify emergency services of your GPS location and that you need assistance. The GEOS International Emergency Response Center alerts the appropriate agencies worldwide – for example contacting 9-1-1 responders in North America and 1-1-2 responders in Europe.

Help: In the event of a non-life threatening emergency, you can use this function to notify your personal contacts that you need assistance. Additional SPOT Assist services can be purchased and programmed to your Help button as well. When activated with SPOT Assist, the Help button will notify professional services either on the land or water. SPOT has partnered with national service providers to offer non-life threatening assistance.

Check-in/OK: This feature allows you to let your friends and family know that all is OK with a pre-programmed message along with your GPS location. With a push of a button a message is sent via email or SMS to up to 10 pre-determined contacts and your waypoint is stored in your SPOT account for later reference. Your stored waypoints can be easily integrated into a SPOT Shared Page or SPOT Adventure account.

Custom Message: This feature allows you to let your friends and family now receive a custom message along with your GPS location with a push of a button. Use this feature as a secondary OK message or transfer your personal help alert to this message function if you are using a SPOT Assist service on your Help button.

Track Progress: This feature allows you to send and save your location and allow contacts to track your progress in near real time using Google Maps. With your SPOT account you have the ability to set up a SPOT Shared Page which allows you to show your SPOT GPS locations to others on a Google Map.

Spot Gen 4 Specifications:

• Height: 3.48" x Width: 2.66" x Thickness: 0.93"
• Weight: ~142g / 5 oz
• Battery Life [Power On]: Send 1,250 Check In and Custom Messages on a Single set of Lithium batteries
• Requires 4 AAA Lithium Batteries (included)
• Vibration Rated: Per SAE J1455
• IP68  waterproof: Up to a depth of 1.5 meter for up to 30 minutes
• Operating temperatures: -22 F to +140 F (-30 C to 60 C)
• Operating altitude: -328 ft to 21,320 ft (-100 m to 6,500 m)
• Humidity and Salt Fog rated

What's New in SPOT Gen 4 (versus SPOT Gen 3)?

• Higher durability rating IP68 vs IP67
• New Design
• Improved SOS magnetic button covers to keep the buttons covered
• Internal power port now inside the battery compartment. This helps with water resistance.

Includes: Strap; USB Cable; Quick Reference Guide; Carabiner; Batteries