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Cat. No. 43-744
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
TAD-1004
Fully Digital TAD with Voice Stamp and
Speed Dial Memory Telephone
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43-744.fm Page 2 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM FEATURES Your Radio Shack TAD-1004 Fully Dig- Call/Message Counter — displays the ital TAD with Voice Stamp and Speed number of messages recorded. Dial Memory Telephone is a combina- tion multi-feature telephone and high User Selectable 3-Digit Security quality answering system. Fully digital Code — helps prevent unauthorized re- means the TAD stores all messages on mote operation. a computer chip — there are no tape mechanisms to wear out and
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43-744.fm Page 3 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM DELETE Button — lets you quickly This TAD has been tested and certified erase messages individually or all at to comply with applicable UL and FCC once. standards. Memo Recording — lets you leave Warning: To prevent fire or shock haz- memos for your family, roommates, or ard, do not expose this system to rain or co-workers as messages on the TAD. moisture. Automatic Toll Saver — answers the CAUTION phone after two rings when you have RISK OF E
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43-744.fm Page 4 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM READ THIS BEFORE FCC STATEMENT INSTALLATION Your TAD complies with Part 68 of FCC Rules. You must, upon request, provide We have designed your TAD to conform the FCC registration number and the to federal regulations, and you can con- REN to your telephone company. Both nect it to most telephone lines. Howev- numbers are marked on the bottom of er, each device you connect to the the TAD. phone line draws power from it. This power draw is the de
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43-744.fm Page 5 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM CONTENTS Installation ........................................................................................................... 6 Choosing a Location ....................................................................................... 6 Connecting to Power ...................................................................................... 6 Installing the Backup Battery ..................................................................
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43-744.fm Page 6 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM INSTALLATION Caution: Only use an adapter that sup- CHOOSING A LOCATION plies 9 volts AC, delivers at least 780 milliamps, and has a plug which proper- Select a location that is near a modular ly fits the TAD’s AC 9V jack. The sup- telephone jack and an AC outlet. plied AC adapter meets these specifications. Using an adapter that Your TAD connects directly to a modu- does not meet these specifications lar telephone line jack. If your tele- mig
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43-744.fm Page 7 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Follow these steps to install the battery. Note: The outgoing message and all in- formation stored in memory are erased when you press RESET. WALL MOUNTING You can mount the TAD on a standard wall plate or directly on the wall, using two screws with heads that fit into the keyhole slots on the back of your TAD. 1. Use a flat-bladed screwdriver to push the latch on the battery com- partment cover, then lift the cover. On a Wall Plate 2. Snap th
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43-744.fm Page 8 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Note: Be sure the keyhole slots on Directly on a Wall the bracket and the TAD are 15 pointed in the same direction. 1. Drill two holes 3 /16 inches (100 mm) apart. 4. Align the wall plate’s two studs with the keyhole slots on the bottom of 2. Thread a screw (not supplied) into the TAD. Slide the TAD down onto each hole until the head extends 3 the studs to secure the TAD to the only about /16 of an inch (5mm) wall plate. from the wall. 5. Slid
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43-744.fm Page 9 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM 5. Plug one end of the supplied long CONNECTING THE modular cord into the TEL LINE jack HANDSET CORD on top of the phone’s base. If you place the TAD on a desk or table, or after you mount the TAD (see “Wall Mounting”), plug one end of the coiled cord into the jack on the left side of the phone’s base. Plug the other end into the jack on the handset. 6. Plug the cord’s other end into a modular phone line jack. 7. Slide the handset clip up and
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43-744.fm Page 10 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM PREPARATION Notes: SETTING THE PULSE/ • To avoid resetting the time if AC TONE SWITCH power is lost, we recommend you install a backup battery before you set the day and time. • If you do not complete each step within 8 seconds, the TAD sounds three beeps and stops setting the day and time. Start again from Step 1. 1. Press and hold SET until the TAD Set PULSE/TONE for the type of service beeps. The TAD announces, “Sun- you have. If you are no
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43-744.fm Page 11 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Note: Each time you change the To check the current day/time at any day, the number on the display time (except while recording or playing changes to indicate the day of the messages), press SET. The TAD an- week (1-7). nounces the day of the week, time, and “AM” or “PM.” 3. Press and release PLAY/STOP. The TAD beeps once and announces the time format, “AM” or “PM.” REPEAT/CODE 4. Press to set back SKIP/MEMO the hour or to advance the hour t
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43-744.fm Page 12 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM TELEPHONE OPERATION Place and answer phone calls as you Note: The redial memory stores 31 tone would with any normal phone. Read this digits or 32 pulse digits. The redial section to learn about the phone’s spe- memory does not store a FLASH entry cial features. or any keys you press after FLASH (see “Using FLASH”). SETTING THE RINGER’S USING FLASH VOLUME Many special telephone services re- To adjust the ringer’s volume, set HI/ quire a swit
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43-744.fm Page 13 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM USING PRIVACY MEMORY DIALING If you want to speak with someone in You can store emergency phone num- the room without the person on the bers or the phone numbers you most phone hearing your conversation, press frequently call in the three priority mem- and hold PRIVACY. Release PRIVACY to ory locations for one-touch dialing. You resume your phone conversation. can store 10 more phone numbers in the indirect memory locations, then quickly call
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43-744.fm Page 14 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM • You can store a FLASH entry in Testing Stored Emergency memory if it is the first entry. Numbers 4. Select the memory location as fol- If you choose to place test calls for lows: stored emergency numbers, follow • For a priority memory location, these guidelines: press P1, P2, or P3. • Remain on the line and briefly explain to the operator the reason for the call before you hang up. • Make these calls in off-peak hours, such as early mornin
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43-744.fm Page 15 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Storing/Chain-Dialing Special Service Numbers When you store the phone numbers for special services (such as alternate long-distance or bank-by-phone), we recommend you store the service’s phone number in one memory location and store additional information in an- other memory location. Note: For security reasons, we recom- mend that you do not store your person- al identification number in memory. Follow these steps to chain-dial a spe- cial
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43-744.fm Page 16 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM ANSWERING SYSTEM OPERATION 3. When you finish recording, release RECORDING THE ANNOUNCE. The TAD beeps, auto- OUTGOING MESSAGE matically repeats the outgoing message so you can verify it, then Before you can set the TAD to answer beeps again. calls, you must record the outgoing message (OGM). This is what the caller 4. Adjust VOLUME on the right side of hears when the TAD answers a call. the TAD to the desired listening level. Notes: To pl
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43-744.fm Page 17 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM •If no outgoing message is Note: If you pick up the phone exactly recorded, the TAD says, “Answer when the TAD answers, you might need off, no announcement.” to hang up and pick up the phone again, or press PLAY/STOP to stop the TAD. If you do not want to take the call, do not pick up the handset, and let the TAD fin- ish recording the caller’s message. PLAYING MESSAGES To set the TAD to not answer calls, If there are new messages (messages AN
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43-744.fm Page 18 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Before playing each message, the TAD Skipping Messages announces the message number and the day and time when each message To skip to the next message while you was recorded. After all messages play, are listening to a message, press SKIP/ the TAD says, “End of message(s)” and MEMO once. The next recorded mes- saves all the messages. sage plays. Repeating Messages To review a message while you are lis- tening to it, press REPEAT/CODE. The curr
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43-744.fm Page 19 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM Stopping Message Playback RECORDING A MEMO To stop playing messages, press PLAY/ A memo is a message you can record at STOP twice within 2 seconds. The TAD the TAD, without having to call in on the beeps once and stops playback. phone. Notes: • The maximum memo length is 60 seconds. • If the TAD’s memory is full (FL and the number of messages alter- nately appear on the display), you must erase some messages before ERASING MESSAGES you can r
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43-744.fm Page 20 Friday, August 13, 1999 2:10 PM REMOTE OPERATION You can operate the TAD from almost CHANGING THE REMOTE any touch-tone phone, or from a rotary OPERATION SECURITY phone using a pocket tone-dialer (avail- CODE able at your local Radio Shack store). Notes: The TAD’s remote operation security code is preset to 744. You can operate • Be sure to set each digit within 8 your TAD remotely with this code; how- seconds. Otherwise, you must start ever, we recommend that you set you
