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Cat. No. 43-781
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
TAD-1009
Digital Telephone Answering System
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43-781.fm Page 2 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM FEATURES Your TAD-1009 Digital Telephone An- Call Screening — lets you listen as a swering System is a sophisticated, ful- caller leaves a message so you can ly digital message center. decide whether or not to answer the call. Fully digital means the TAD stores all messages on a computer chip. This Memo Recording — lets you leave gives you advanced capabilities over messages for yourself or others in your tape-based answering machines. For home
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43-781.fm Page 3 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM Outgoing Message Remote Skip — This TAD has been tested and found to stops playing your outgoing message comply with all applicable UL and FCC during remote operation as soon as standards. you enter your remote operation secu- rity code. Phone Pick-Up Detection — stops recording when you pick up any phone on the same line as the TAD, and re- sets to answer the next call. For your records, we suggest you record your TAD’s serial number in the sp
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43-781.fm Page 4 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM READ THIS BEFORE FCC STATEMENT INSTALLATION Your TAD complies with Part 68 of FCC Rules. You must, upon request, We have designed your TAD to con- provide the FCC registration number form to federal regulations, and you and the REN to your phone company. can connect it to most telephone lines. Both numbers appear on the bottom of However, each device that you con- your TAD. nect to the phone line draws power from the line. We refer to this powe
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43-781.fm Page 5 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM CONTENTS Installation ............................................................................................................ 6 Connecting to the Telephone Line .................................................................. 6 Connecting the AC Adapter ............................................................................ 6 Installing the Backup Battery .......................................................................... 7 P
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43-781.fm Page 6 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM INSTALLATION Select a location for the TAD that is CONNECTING near a telephone jack and an AC outlet THE AC ADAPTER and is not in the way of normal activi- ties. Caution: You must use a Class II AC adapter that supplies 12 volts of pow- er, delivers at least 200 milliamps, and CONNECTING TO THE has a plug that properly fits the TAD’s 12V DC jack with its center tip set to TELEPHONE LINE negative. The supplied adapter meets these specifications
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43-781.fm Page 7 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM Notes: 2. Snap the battery’s contacts firmly to the battery connector, then put • Be sure not to press any of the the battery into the compartment. TAD’s buttons while you are plug- ging the adapter into the AC out- let. If you accidentally press a illustration button, reset the TAD by unplug- ging the adapter from the AC out- let and reinserting it. • The TAD cannot operate without 3. Replace the cover, then reinsert AC power. and tighten the
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43-781.fm Page 8 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM PREPARATION Complete the procedures in this sec- Notes: tion before you set the TAD to answer • Once you turn the TAD on, it is set calls. to answer calls (see “Setting the TAD to Answer/Not Answer Notes: Calls”). • The keypad is located under the • You can also turn the TAD on cover on the front of the TAD. Lift remotely (see “Remote Answer- the cover to access the keys. On”). illustration SETTING THE DAY AND TIME You must set the current day
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43-781.fm Page 9 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM 2. Press 1/TIME. The TAD says SETTING THE NUMBER “Press one for Monday. Press two OF RINGS for Tuesday. Press three for Wednesday. Press four for Thurs- The TAD is preset to sound 4 rings be- day. Press five for Friday. Press fore it answers the first call. Follow six for Saturday. Press seven for these steps to change the number of Sunday.” rings (from 2-9). Notes: illustration • If you plan to check your mes- sages by long distance, set the
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43-781.fm Page 10 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM 2.Release OGM and record your RECORDING announcement. Speak into the ANNOUNCEMENTS TAD from about 12 inches away. Note: The outgoing message Recording the Outgoing must be at least 2 seconds long Announcement for proper remote operation. The TAD has a built-in outgoing an- 3. When you finish speaking, press nouncement that says “Please leave ON/OFF. The TAD beeps once, the your message after the tone.” announcement plays, then the ON LINE in
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43-781.fm Page 11 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM Recording the Memory Full Checking/Deleting the Announcement Memory Full Announcement The TAD has a built-in memory full an- You can press 4/OGM2 at any time to nouncement. When the memory be- play the memory full announcement. comes full and the TAD can no longer Adjust VOLUME on the side of the TAD record messages, the ON LINE, PLAY, to a comfortable listening level. and MEMO indicators flash, and the TAD announces to the caller “The To sto
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43-781.fm Page 12 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM BASIC OPERATION Be sure you complete the procedures Answering Calls in “Installation” and “Preparation” be- fore you begin using the TAD. After the TAD answers a call, the out- going announcement plays then the TAD sounds a beep and recording be- gins. SETTING THE TAD TO ANSWER/NOT ANSWER The caller can leave a message of up CALLS to 1 minute in length. After the call is over (when the caller hangs up or is si- To set the TAD to answer call
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43-781.fm Page 13 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM • If the caller hangs up or is silent Recording the for more than 7 seconds, or if the Announcement-Only incoming message is less than 2 Message seconds in length, the TAD hangs up and resets to answer the next 1. Press ANN ONLY so the ANN indi- call, but does not record a mes- cator turns on, then press and sage. hold OGM until the TAD beeps once and the ON LINE indicator • If the TAD answers when the flashes. memory is full, it plays the m
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43-781.fm Page 14 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM Note: If you pick up the phone just as Checking/Deleting the the TAD answers, the TAD might not Announcement-Only stop recording. If this happens, hang Message up the phone momentarily, then pick it up again. You can press OGM while the ANN in- dicator is turned on to play the an- nouncement-only message. Adjust RECORDING A 2-WAY VOLUME on the side of the TAD to a PHONE CONVERSATION comfortable listening level. You can record both sides of
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43-781.fm Page 15 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM — To repeat the current mes- RECORDING A MEMO < sage, press 7/ A memo is a message that you record — To skip back to the previous by speaking directly into the TAD, with- message, press 6/ out calling in on the phone line. — To skip forward to the next MEMO 1. Press and hold until the message, press 9/ TAD beeps. The ON LINE indica- • To delete any type of message, tor flashes and the MEMO indica- see “Deleting Messages.” tor lights steadily.
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43-781.fm Page 16 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM Playing 2-Way Conversations Playing Memos To listen to a recorded 2-way conver- To listen to a recorded memo, press sation, press 2-WAY. The TAD tells you MEMO. The TAD tells you how many how many 2-way conversations it has memos it has recorded. For example, if recorded. For example, if there are there are two, the TAD says “Two mes- two, the TAD says “Two messages.” sages.” The TAD plays each recorded 2-way The TAD plays each recorded memo,
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43-781.fm Page 17 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM • If you did not previously set the DELETING MESSAGES day and time, the TAD will not play a day/time stamp and you cannot The TAD-1009 lets you delete mes- delete a message the first time sages individually (during playback) or you play it. all at once (before or after playback). To delete all incoming messages, To delete a particular incoming press and hold PGM/DEL before or af- message, 2-way conversation, or ter playback until the TAD beeps
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43-781.fm Page 18 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM REMOTE OPERATION While you are away from your home or CHANGING THE office, you can use a touch-tone phone REMOTE CODE or a pulse (rotary) phone with a pocket tone dialer to enter your remote opera- To use your TAD from a remote tele- tion security code and do any of the fol- phone, you must first enter a 3-digit re- lowing: mote operation security code. The • Set the TAD to answer calls security code for your TAD is preset to 028. You can ei
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43-781.fm Page 19 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM REMOTE ANSWER-ON USING REMOTE COMMANDS If the TAD is connected to AC power, you can use any remote phone to turn Follow these steps to operate the TAD the TAD on and set it to answer calls from a remote touch-tone phone. and record messages. 1. Dial your phone number. To remotely set the TAD to answer 2. When the outgoing announce- calls, dial your phone number and wait ment begins, press . The about 12 rings until the TAD answers. announcem
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43-781.fm Page 20 Monday, August 16, 1999 7:41 AM 4. Within 7 seconds, enter your • If you do not have CPC service selection (see “List of Remote and you hang up while the TAD Commands”). is playing back the messages, the TAD might not recognize Notes: that you hung up. If someone • If you do not press a button calls while the TAD continues to within 7 seconds, the TAD play the messages, the caller hangs up. hears a busy signal. We recom- mend that you play all the mes- • To delete a message
