With Spring just around the corner for most everyone, maybe some of you haven’t used your SPOT unit for awhile. Here’s a friendly reminder to make sure that you are using it correctly to get the best results. To see the refresher click Read More…

We get a lot of feedback from customers about SPOT shared pages and questions about how to share them with their friends, family or anyone else. Shared pages are great because you can share your SPOT locations with others, whether they have an account or not. But sometimes the code in the share address link is long and hard to remember. Here’s an idea—head to tinyurl.com.

SPOT LLC is proud to announce the winner of its first annual photo contest. The winner is Sean Morley of Fairfax, CA. Morley took the photo with his SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger in view off the west coast of Vancouver Island off Kwakiuta Point, Quatsino Sound on September 26, 2008 and submitted it for the contest in October. Recently, Morley used a SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger during a record-breaking circumnavigation of Vancouver Island by sea kayak. In 2004, Morley completed a 4,500-mile circumnavigation of the British Isles. Click "read more" below for the interview.

Over 100 amazing photo entries were sent in by our customers! The entire SPOT staff was in awe of the amazing places you guys go and the things you do while using the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger. Thank you for sharing your adventures and your photos with us! Congratulations to all the winners of the contest. All of you SPOT users are winners in our eyes because you are getting out there and living your life to the fullest. Keep it up!

Please continue sharing your adventures by interacting with the newsletter, emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visiting our soon to launch adventure sharing portal www.spotadventures.com. We look forward to having another official contest sometime in the future. To see an interview with the Grand Prizewinner, click here. Click “read more” below to see the Grand Prizewinner’s and finalists' photos.

After hearing feedback from our users out there, we've been working on some SPOT account enhancements this winter that launched last week. Here is an overview of some of our favorite enhancements:

1. Message screen enhancements (display, hide or delete messages!)
2. Show and hide messages from shared page(s)
3. Message filtering (by messenger, time and message type)
4. Additional controls for share page displaying
5. Product Replacement Program (currently only available when activating or renewing)

For screen shots and more details on additional feature enhancements, click here.

Just announced! Congratulations to the 10 winners of the Baja 1000 Giveaway (http://www.findmespot.com/baja1000/) that ended today, December 16, 2008.

Les Waterski
Dianne Lane
Cheryl Larimer
Robyn Ellis
Teresa Eastridge
Donna Steely
Carmelita Cohn
Wendy Owen
Frances Carty
David Reed

We thank all of you that entered in the contest and hope you look forward to more promotions in 2009.