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Cat. No. 43-1045
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
ET-545
25-Channel Caller ID
Cordless Telephone
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43-1045.fm Page 2 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM FEATURES Your RadioShack ET-545 25-Channel Auto Scan — automatically selects a Caller ID Cordless Telephone offers clear channel when you pick up the the latest advances in cordless phone phone. You can also manually change technology. Additionally, it includes an to any of 25 channels during a call. integrated Caller ID system. Advanced Super CCT Circuitry — The ET-545 has these features: provides clarity comparable to a cord- ed phone, red
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43-1045.fm Page 3 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Redial — redials the last number di- For the ET-545’s Caller ID memory aled, with the touch of a button. dial feature to operate, you must re- ceive the caller’s number. Page — lets you send a paging signal from the base to the handset to help Warning: To prevent fire or shock locate a misplaced handset or page hazard, do not expose this product someone at the handset. to rain or moisture. Touch Tone or Pulse (Rotary) Dial- CAUTION ing — let
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43-1045.fm Page 4 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Your ET-545 operates on standard ra- FCC STATEMENT dio frequencies, as allocated by the FCC. Therefore, it is possible for other This telephone complies with Part 68 radio units operating on similar fre- of FCC Rules. You must, upon re- quencies, within a certain area, to in- quest, provide the FCC registration advertently intercept your conversa- number and the REN to your phone tions and/or cause interference on company. These numbers are
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43-1045.fm Page 5 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM CONTENTS Preparation ........................................................................................................... 6 Selecting a Location ........................................................................................ 6 Connecting the Base ....................................................................................... 6 Connecting the Battery Pack ................................................................
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43-1045.fm Page 6 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM PREPARATION SELECTING A CONNECTING THE BASE LOCATION Follow these steps to set up and con- nect the base. Select a location for the telephone that is: • Near an AC outlet • Near a telephone line jack illus • Out of the way of normal activities • Away from electrical machinery, electrical appliances, and metal walls or filing cabinets • Away from wireless intercoms, alarms, and room monitors 1. Plug one end of the supplied mod- The base’s loc
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43-1045.fm Page 7 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM CONNECTING THE CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK BATTERY PACK Before you use your phone for the first Charge the battery pack by placing time, you must connect the battery the handset on the base so the pack in the handset and charge it for CHARGE/TALK indicator lights. Let about 15 hours. the battery pack charge for about 15 hours. Slide off the battery compartment cov- er on the back of the handset. Con- nect the battery pack’s plug to the pins i
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43-1045.fm Page 8 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Notes: • You can set POWER to ON while the battery pack charges. Illus of contacts on both the handset and the base illus • The first time you use your phone after charging a new battery pack, the handset might not work and • About once a month, fully dis- might sound an error tone when charge the battery pack by keep- you press TALK. This might also ing the handset off the base until occur when you recharge a bat- LOW BATT lights. Then retu
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43-1045.fm Page 9 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM If the dial tone continues, you SETTING THE DIALING have pulse service. Set TONE/ MODE PULSE to PULSE. Set TONE/PULSE on the back of the base for the type of service you have. STORING AN AREA If you are not sure which type you have, once the battery is charged, do CODE this test. To quickly dial local calls using the 1. Set POWER to ON. Caller ID and stored number features, 2. Set TONE/PULSE to TONE. you need to store your local area code
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43-1045.fm Page 10 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM PHONE OPERATION Your ET-545’s handset display shows Note: When POWER is set to OFF, telephone numbers as you dial them other telephones on the same line still or when you recall them from memory. ring when there is an incoming call. The handset shows the current chan- The CHARGE/TALK indicator on the nel number and the duration of your base flashes until you answer the call. call in minutes and seconds. To answer a call, just lift the hands
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43-1045.fm Page 11 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM To make or answer a call, press TALK so the TALK key on the handset lights. Notes: illus • If the phone is out of range of the base, the handset beeps three times and the TALK key turns off. • You can make or answer a call on a phone on the same line as the cordless phone, even if the ET- 545’s handset is away from the base. USING REDIAL • The keypad on the handset turns off if no button is pressed for more To quickly redial the last number
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43-1045.fm Page 12 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM 1. Set TONE/PULSE on the base to USING FLASH/DEL PULSE. FLASH/DEL Use on the handset to 2. Dial the service’s main number. perform the switchhook operation for 3. When the service answers, press special services, such as Call Waiting. TONE on the keypad. A appears on the display. Then dial the addi- tional numbers. The phone sends these numbers as tone signals. illus 4. When you complete the call, place the handset on the base or press TAL
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43-1045.fm Page 13 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Note: The handset will not beep dur- ing a call. illus MEMORY DIALING You can store up to 30 phone num- bers and associated names for quick and easy dialing. Each stored number can be up to 16 digits long, and each name can be up to 15 characters. Note: If you do not press any but- ton on the keypad within about 25 Notes: seconds, the keypad light turns off and the handset sounds 3 beeps. •If TONE/PULSE is set to PULSE You must press MEMORY
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43-1045.fm Page 14 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM • To enter an at symbol (@), 7. Enter the two-digit memory loca- press 0 then 3. tion number (01, 02, … 30) where you want to store the number. The • To enter a space, press 1 then 1 index number appears, and two again. long beeps sound. The phone • To enter a dash, press 1 then 2. number is now stored in that memory location. • To enter an asterisk, press 1 then 3. 8. Pull out the memory index card from the bottom of the base. Write • To e
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43-1045.fm Page 15 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Entering a Pause in a Memory Number In some telephone systems, you must illus dial an access code (9, for example) and wait for a second dial tone before you can dial an outside number. If your phone is connected to one of these systems, you might want to en- ter a pause after the access code when you store a phone number in memory. At the appropriate place in the num- ber, press REDIAL/PAUSE to enter a Dialing a Stored Number 2-second paus
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43-1045.fm Page 16 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM 3. Press DIAL. The phone dials the When storing numbers for special ser- stored number. vices, store the service’s main phone number in one memory location and Note: If you press DIAL 1+, the numbers for additional information in phone dials a 1 at the beginning of other memory locations. the phone number (although it does not appear on the display). When calling special services, dial the service’s main number first. Then, at the appropria
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43-1045.fm Page 17 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM CALLER ID OPERATION If you subscribe to Caller ID, the sys- CALL FOWRD BUSY tem automatically displays information Appears instead of the phone about calls you receive and stores the number if the call was forwarded information in Caller ID memory. The to you by a phone that was set to system can store up to 100 number forward any busy calls. only or name and number call records. CAL FWRD NO ANS The first line of the Caller ID record Appea
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43-1045.fm Page 18 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM PRIVATE DIALING NUMBERS Appears if the caller chose to FROM A CALLER ID block sending Caller ID informa- RECORD tion. No caller information ap- pears. To dial a number stored in a Caller ID record, repeatedly press REVIEW < or OUT OF AREA > until the phone number you want to Appears if the caller is not within a dial appears on the display, then Caller ID service area, or during press DIAL or DIAL 1+. the following types of incoming calls
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43-1045.fm Page 19 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM If you do not want to delete all DELETING CALLER ID records, wait 5 seconds without RECORDS pressing any button. You can delete individual Caller ID records, or all Caller ID records stored VIP CALL LIST in the system. Your phone lets you save up to 20 Follow these steps to delete a single Caller ID records in its VIP Call List. record. Whenever someone calls from one of 1. Repeatedly press REVIEW < or > those 20 numbers, the system sound
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43-1045.fm Page 20 Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:58 AM Notes: If you do not want to delete the record, wait 5 seconds without • If you do not press any button for pressing any button. about 5 seconds, the display auto- matically turns off. Follow these steps to delete all call • VIP MEMO FULL appears and records. the phone sounds three long 1. Press VIP and press REVIEW < or beeps when the VIP Call List is > to display any VIP call record. full. 2. Press and hold FLASH/DEL for about 5 seconds,
