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Cat. No. 17-9003
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this pager.
Tracker Alphanumeric Pager
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17-9003.fm Page 2 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM INTRODUCTION Your Tracker Alphanumeric Pager lets you keep in touch with the office and with family and friends any- where around town. It can store up to 16 alphanumer- ic messages (or a maximum of 640 characters) and alerts you with either a gentle vibration, a vibration and single beep, a melody, or one of two beep pat- terns. The pager also has these features: Clock — displays the current date and time when you are not viewing a message, and
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17-9003.fm Page 3 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Low Battery Message and Alert — lets you know when the battery is low. Automatic Message Scroll — lets you set the pager to automatically scroll through all messages and set the speed at which the messages scroll. Page Reminder — lets you set the pager to sound a series of alerts to remind you to view unread pages. Timer — lets you set the pager to sound an alert after a set amount of time (up to 99 minutes) has passed. Be sure you thoroughly re
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17-9003.fm Page 4 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM CONTENTS Getting Started ................................................................. 6 Subscribing to Service ............................................... 6 Installing a Battery ..................................................... 6 Pager Quick Guide ........................................................... 9 Indicators ................................................................. 10 Pager Set-Up .................................
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17-9003.fm Page 5 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Using Automatic Message-Scroll ..................... 26 Duplicate Messages ........................................ 27 Tone Only or Unreadable Messages ............... 27 Protecting and Unprotecting Messages ................... 28 Deleting Messages .................................................. 29 Deleting Individual Messages .......................... 29 Deleting All Messages ..................................... 31 Special Features .......
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17-9003.fm Page 6 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM GETTING STARTED SUBSCRIBING TO SERVICE You must subscribe to paging service through Mobile- Comm before you can start receiving messages. To activate your pager, call MobileComm or its asso- ciated carrier at the telephone number listed in the ac- tivation instructions provided with your pager’s activation packet. INSTALLING A BATTERY Your pager requires one AAA battery. For the best performance and longest life, we recommend an alka- line batte
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17-9003.fm Page 7 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 1 2 1. Slide off the battery cover in the direction of the arrow. 2. Place a battery in the compartment according to the polarity symbols (+ and –) marked inside. 3. Replace the cover. 7
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17-9003.fm Page 8 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM When battery power becomes low, the pager sounds an alert every few seconds, Change Battery ap- pears, and flashes on the display. Press any button to stop the alert. Depending on how often you use the pager, you should have about 3 days of battery power left when this low battery alert first occurs. Notes: • If you press a button to stop the alert, the pager displays (and Change Battery instead of the time on the standby display) until you re
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17-9003.fm Page 9 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PAGER QUICK GUIDE Alert Menu Function/Select Speaker Button Buttons 9
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17-9003.fm Page 10 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM INDICATORS Your pager displays the following symbols. or Audible alert mode or Silent (vibrate) alert mode Protected message Duplicate message or Message continuation Daily alarm Timer Low battery 10
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17-9003.fm Page 11 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PAGER SET-UP SETTING THE DATE, TIME, AND TIME FORMAT M Press and hold for a few seconds to turn on the pager, then follow these steps to set the current date, time, and time format. Notes: • If you do not set the time, the pager incorrectly reports the times of your pages. • If you do not press a button for about 40 seconds during these steps (or while setting any of the pager’s features), the pager returns to the time/ date (standby) display
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17-9003.fm Page 12 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM • When you press in Steps 3–8, the pager scrolls forward through that setting’s sequence (years 95–13, for example), then repeats that sequence when it reaches the end. M 1. At the standby display, press then repeatedly press until Set Clock appears. 2. Press . The hour digit(s) flash. 3. Repeatedly press to select the hour, then press . The minute digits flash. Note: If you previously selected the 12-hour time format, be sure to select the
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17-9003.fm Page 13 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 5. To select the other time format, press so that format flashes, then press . The year digits flash. To keep the current time format, simply press . The year digits flash. 6. Repeatedly press to select the current year, then press . The month digits flash. 7. Repeatedly press to select the current month, then press . The day digits flash. 8. Repeatedly press to select the current day of M the month, then press to store the selected settin
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17-9003.fm Page 14 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM SETTING THE DATE FORMAT Your pager is preset to display the date in the month/ day/year (M/D/Y) format, but you can set it to use the D/M/Y format. To change the date format, follow these steps. M 1. At the standby display, press then repeatedly press until Set Options appears. 2. Press , then repeatedly press until Calen- dar: and the currently selected format (M/D/Y or D/M/Y) appear. 3. Press . The currently selected date format flashes. 4
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17-9003.fm Page 15 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM SETTING THE MESSAGE ALERT Your pager is preset to alert you by sounding one of three audible alert patterns (Beep1); however, you can set it to use any of these audible or silent alerts (and you can set the alert length — see “Setting the Alert Length” on Page 19). Display Alert Type Beep1 or Beep2 (audible) Melody (audible) Vibrate (silent) Chirp/Vibrate (two beeps then silent) 15
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17-9003.fm Page 16 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Selecting an Audible Alert M 1. At the standby display, press . Set Alerts appears and the last selected alert symbol flashes. 2.Press . Sound ON/OFF appears, and the cur- rent setting (ON or OFF) flashes. 3. Press (if necessary) so ON flashes, then press . Beep1, 2 / Melody appears, and the cur- rent setting flashes. 4. Repeatedly press to select Beep1, (Beep)2, or Melody so that setting flashes, then press to store the selected setting. Th
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17-9003.fm Page 17 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Selecting a Silent Alert M 1. At the standby display, press . Set Alerts appears and the last selected alert symbol flashes. 2.Press . Sound ON/OFF appears, and the cur- rent setting (ON or OFF) flashes. 3. Press (if necessary) so OFF flashes, then press . Chirp ON/OFF appears, and the current setting (ON or OFF) flashes. 4. Press (if necessary) so OFF flashes to select (vibrate) or ON flashes to select (chirp/ vibrate). Then press to stor
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17-9003.fm Page 18 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Using Audible/Silent Quick-Set To quickly change the alert type from audible to silent or silent to audible, at the standby display, press and M hold for a few seconds. Set Alerts appears briefly, then the pager beeps and Sound ON or Sound OFF appears briefly. Then the standby dis- play reappears showing the current audible (ON) or si- lent (OFF) alert pattern symbol. 18
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17-9003.fm Page 19 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Setting the Alert Length Your pager is preset to alert for about 30 seconds when you receive a message or to remind you of an unread message; however, you can set it to alert for 20 (“Short”), 32 (“Middle”), or 44 (“Long”) seconds. Follow these steps to change the alert length. M 1. At the standby display, press then repeatedly press until Set Options appears. 2. Press so AR: (auto-reset) and the current alert length (Short, Middle, or Long)
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17-9003.fm Page 20 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM OPERATION TURNING THE PAGER ON/OFF M To turn on the pager, press and hold for a few sec- onds until Power ON appears on the display. The pager sounds an alert tone or vibrates and briefly turns on all indicators, then the standby display ap- pears. M To turn off the pager, press and hold for a few sec- onds until the pager beeps once (Set Alerts ap- M pears), then release and press it again within 2 seconds. Power OFF appears and the pager b
