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Here's How It Works!
Your Roadside Companion gives you quick and easy access to help in these and other emergency situations:
• Medical Emergencies
• Fire Emergencies
• Police Emergencies
• Roadside Assistance
lace the unit on the dash under the front windshield. When you plug in your Roadside Companion,
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you will hear a short beep and the "IN USE" led will flash once every four seconds indicating that
the GPS unit is active. The Roadside Companion unit will silently calculate and store your current location.
This may take up to a few minutes.
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When you need help, simply press the big red button and hold
until the button until it beeps.
The red "IN USE" light will flash on and off once every second
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indicating that the Roadside Companion unit is searching for a signal.
When the "IN USE" light turns solid red and the unit chirps, this
indicates that the call is going through. You will hear a brief intro-
duction confirming contact with your Roadside Companion monitoring
center that says: "Welcome to Roadside Companion Services.
Please stand by for your Roadside Companion Professional."
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Listen for a Roadside Companion professional who will greet you by name.
If your current location is required during the call, your Roadside Companion professional will
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activate your unit for a location update. While activating the unit, you will lose voice contact
with the Roadside Companion professional for 5-7 seconds. Your Roadside Companion professional
will quickly access your current location.
In the event of an emergency, your Roadside Companion professional will contact the local
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emergency service provider that is best equipped to meet your needs, and stay on the line with you
and the service provider until you are satisfied that your needs are met.
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Once your call is completed, your Roadside Companion professional will end the call for you.
Occasionally, the communication signal can be dropped. Unlike other devices, which require you to redial the number
by yourself, the Roadside Companion will automatically redial the monitoring center if the signal is dropped.
Please be assured that if this happens the Roadside Companion will make several attempts to re-dial until you are connected
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If you have any questions, please call us at 1-888-905-6900.
Roadside Companion Setup and Initial Test Call
Antenna
Speaker
phone
Test button
Call button
In-use light
Test light
Note: Remove caution label before use.
How To Begin
Plug your Roadside Companion unit into the cigarette lighter
power is going into the unit, you can begin tracking with RadioShack or make an emergency call
if needed.
If your unit was a gift, please call toll-free 1-888-905-6900 and a Roadside Companion representative
will assist you in activating your device.
If you have any questions, please call us at 1-888-905-6900.
We suggest that you review the location of all
Roadside Companion unit features shown in the diagram
(left). The following instructions will guide you through
the setup and test call with your Roadside Companion unit.
This will take approximately 10 minutes.
of your car. As long as
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