Section 4: System Function And Indicators; Operation - SPOT GEOS User Manual

fUncTiOn OveRvieW
function
- Messages scheduled 3 times over 20 minutes to contacts on your
contact list
check oK and custom message
- Message not sent if GPS location cannot be determined
- Suspends Track Progress until message is sent, then Track Progress
resumes automatically
- Messages scheduled every 5 minutes for one hour with updated location
helP
to your friends and family, or SPOT Assist provider
- Message scheduled even if GPS location cannot be determined
- Overrides Check OK, Custom Message, and Track Progress
- Messages scheduled every 5 minutes until cancelled (or batteries are
SoS
depleted) with updated location to GEOS Rescue Coordination Center
- Message scheduled even if GPS location cannot be determined
- Overrides Check OK, Custom Message, and Track Progress
- Messages scheduled every 5 minutes to GEOS Rescue Coordination
combined helP and SoS
Center until cancelled (or batteries are depleted) with updated location
- Message scheduled every 5 minutes for one hour with updated location
to your contacts
- Message scheduled even if GPS location cannot be determined
- Overrides Check OK, Custom Message, and Track Progress
- Updated location and two previous locations scheduled for transmission
track Progress
to your account every 10 minutes for 24 hours
- Message not sent if GPS location cannot be determined
SPOT: THe cenTeR Of YOUR cOnnecTed advenTUReS
SPOT is continually working to enhance its customers' experience and add new services to the
SPOT web service. For example, www.spotadventures.com is a new, fun, easy way to share your
adventures with your friends or with the world. Visit findmespot.com frequently to find out about
new and improved services that make it easy to share your life and adventures with others.
Not all services are available in all languages or regions.

oPeration

SecTiOn 4: SYSTeM fUncTiOn and indicaTORS

SPot meSSaGe ScheDule
SPOT is designed to provide outstanding quality and reliability. With a perfect view of the entire
sky, the SPOT Messenger is designed to successfully send virtually every message. In everyday
conditions, the view of the sky is often blocked due to hills, buildings, or other obstructions so it is
normal for some messages to be blocked. That is why the SPOT Messenger automatically sends
multiple messages in every mode, giving you excellent overall reliability. In some modes this means
multiple attempts to send the same message, while in other modes it means regularly updating GPS
coordinates and sending a new message. Placement of your SPOT unit can make a difference.
Experiment with placement until you are familiar with the reliability of your operating environment.
meSSaGe inDicatorS
For all functions, SPOT lets you know what it is doing.
blinKinG Green
inDicator
GPS Searching for GPS signal.
Message Sending Message transmission schedule in progress.
Check OK message sequence
Check OK or Custom Message
SPOT Messenger in HELP mode.
HELP
SOS is engaged.
SOS
SPOT Messenger in track
Track Progress
On/Off
blinKinG reD
GPS location fix failed.
Move to a new location.
In Track Progress, means no
GPS fix. N/A in all other modes
N/A
in progress.
HELP has been cancelled.
SOS has been cancelled.
N/A
progress mode.
On Less than 20% of battery
life remaining.