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43-463.fm Page 1 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM
Cat. No. 43-463
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
SYSTEM 212
Two-Line Speakerphone
with Conference
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43-463.fm Page 2 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM FEATURES Your RadioShack System 212 Two-Line Redial and Auto Redial — lets you Speakerphone with Conference gives quickly dial the last dialed number with you a complete two-line telephone sys- the press of a button, or set that station tem with the most advanced features to automatically redial the last dialed available in telephone technology today. number up to ten times. You can connect up to 12 System 212 Speakerphones to two telephone lin
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43-463.fm Page 3 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM This telephone is ETL listed to UL stan- READ THIS BEFORE dards and meets all applicable FCC INSTALLATION standards. Each device that you connect to the We recommend you record your phone line draws power from the phone phone’s serial number here. The num- line. We refer to this power draw as the ber is on the bottom of the phone. device’s ringer equivalence number, or REN. The REN is on the bottom of the Serial Number __________________ phone
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43-463.fm Page 4 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM CONTENTS Installing the Speakerphone ................................................................................. 6 Installing the Backup Batteries .......................................................................... 7 Selecting a Location .......................................................................................... 7 Placing the Phone on a Desk Top ............................................................... 8 Mounti
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43-463.fm Page 5 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM Care and Maintenance ......................................................................................... 24 The FCC Wants You to Know .......................................................................... 25 Lightning ........................................................................................................... 25 5
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43-463.fm Page 6 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM INSTALLING THE SPEAKERPHONE To make full use of the Speakerphone’s • If you do not have 2-line phone features, you must connect it to two tele- jacks, you can use 1-line modular phone lines, each with its own telephone phone jacks or combine two 1-line number. However, you can connect it to modular phone jacks using a 2-line a single line. coupler (such as RadioShack Cat. No. 279-401, not supplied). Notes: • The first Speakerphone you connect t
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43-463.fm Page 7 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM (+ and –) marked inside the battery INSTALLING THE compartment. BACKUP BATTERIES The System 212 requires AC power to operate. However, if AC power fails or you unplug the speakerphone, the three AAA backup batteries (not supplied) save stored information. We recom- mend you use alkaline batteries, such as RadioShack Cat. No. 23-555. Cautions: • Always use fresh batteries of the re- 3. Replace the cover and the screw. quired size and type. Cau
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43-463.fm Page 8 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM Placing the Phone on a the bottom of the telephone, then route the AC power cord through the Desk Top AC ADAPTER CORD slot. Follow these steps when you place the Do not plug the adapter into the AC base on a desk, shelf, or table. outlet at this time. 1. Remove the stand from the bottom of the phone by pressing and hold- ing in both spring tabs, then gently pulling the wide end of the stand and lifting it off. The supplied AC adapter Caution:
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43-463.fm Page 9 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM 5. Plug the modular cord’s other end into the modular phone line jack(s) for Line 1 and Line 2, then plug the AC adapter into a standard AC out- let. 2. Insert the tabs on the narrow end of the supplied stand upward into the lower slots near the center of the phone, then push the wide end of the stand until it clicks into place. To silence the phone ringing, set the station extension number for the phone (see “Setting the Station Extension Nu
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43-463.fm Page 10 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM 4. Insert the supplied AC adapter’s barrel plug into the POWER jack on the bottom of the telephone, then route the AC power cord through the AC ADAPTER CORD slot. Do not plug the adapter into the AC outlet at this time. 6. Align the keyhole slots on the back of the stand with the wall plate studs or the screws in the wall, then care- fully slide the phone down to secure it. Caution: The supplied AC adapter supplies 12V DC, delivers at least 3
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43-463.fm Page 11 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM CONNECTING THE SETTING THE DIALING HANDSET MODE Plug one end of the coiled cord into the Follow these steps to set the phone for modular jack on the handset. Then con- the type of service you have — tone or nect it to the jack on the side of the tele- pulse. Since the phone is preset for tone phone base. Place the handset in the service, you do not need to change it un- cradle. less you have pulse service. You might prefer a longer cord for t
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43-463.fm Page 12 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM SETTING THE STATION ADJUSTING THE RINGER EXTENSION NUMBERS VOLUME When you connect more than one The Speakerphone has four ringer vol- Speakerphone, you must also set a dif- ume levels — off, low, middle, and high ferent extension number for each station — for each line. Follow these steps to so you can use the System’s paging and adjust the ringer volume when the intercom features. Speakerphone is not being used. At each Speakerphone station
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43-463.fm Page 13 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM USING THE TELEPHONE LINE STATUS MAKING A CALL WITH THE HANDSET The line status indicator to the left of each line button show that line’s status. 1. Lift the handset. The telephone au- tomatically selects an available line, or you can press a line button to se- lect the other line. 2. Dial the number. 3. When the call is over, hang up the handset to disconnect the call. MAKING A CALL WITH Indicator Status THE SPEAKERPHONE Off Not in use Fla
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43-463.fm Page 14 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM ANSWERING A CALL USING HOLD To answer an incoming call, pick up the To place a call on hold, press HOLD. handset or press SPKR PHONE. You can then hang up the handset or use the other phone line without discon- Note: If another station answers an in- necting the current call. coming call before you do, your station is locked out and you hear either the dial tone from the other phone line, or si- lence if both lines are being used by oth- er st
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43-463.fm Page 15 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM Note: If you do not have any special USING PRIVACY phone services, pressing FLASH might disconnect the current call. If you do not want the person on the oth- er end of the phone line to hear your conversation with someone else at your location, press PRIVACY. The PRIVACY USING REDIAL indicator lights and the microphone turns off, but you can still hear the call- You can quickly redial the last number ing party. you dialed from that station. •
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43-463.fm Page 16 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM USING AUTO REDIAL CONFERENCE CALLING Follow these steps to set your Speaker- Conference calling lets you conduct 3- phone to automatically redial a number way conversations with two outside call- (one that is busy, for example) up to ten ers, or with one outside caller and one times. other internal station. 1. While the handset is on the cradle and SPKR PHONE is off, press an With Two Outside Callers available line’s button. The line lock indi
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43-463.fm Page 17 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM With One Outside Caller and USING TONE SERVICES One Internal Station ON A PULSE LINE 1. Place the outside caller on hold by Some special services, such as bank-by- pressing HOLD. phone, require tone signals. If you have pulse service, you can still use these 2. Press INTERCOM and dial the sta- special tone services. tion number you want to join your call. Dial the service’s main number as usual, then simply press TONE/ when the Note: Only on
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43-463.fm Page 18 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM Notes: MEMORY DIALING • To store the last number you You can store up to 20 numbers in the dialed, press REDIAL. Speakerphone’s memory locations. • If you make a mistake while Then you can quickly dial these num- entering the number, start again bers by pressing one or two buttons. at Step 1. Each number you store can be up to 16 3. Select the location where you want digits long. to store the number. • For an upper memory position, Storing a
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43-463.fm Page 19 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM Use a flat-blade screwdriver to lift up the Dialing Stored Numbers plastic cover from the telephone number index card. For each stored number, To dial a number stored in memory, lift write the person’s or company’s name the handset or press SPKR PHONE. next to the appropriate location number Then: on the phone number index card. Use a • To dial a number stored in upper pencil in case you want to change it lat- memory, press the desired memory
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43-463.fm Page 20 Friday, August 13, 1999 9:06 AM USING INTERCOM AND PAGING You can call other stations connected to 1. To use the intercom with the speak- the same phone lines using either the in- erphone, press INTERCOM. INTER- tercom or paging feature. COM flashes and the speakerphone turns on and sounds a steady tone. Using the Speakerphone’s intercom fea- ture is like making a telephone call to another station. You can have a two- way conversation when the called sta- tion answers. Using
