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Cat. No. 43-759 A
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
TAD-759
Digital Answering System
with 13-Memory Telephone
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FEATURES Your RadioShack TAD-759 Digital An- Remote Operation — lets you use a swering System combines a high-quality touch-tone phone (or rotary phone and answering system with a multi-feature pocket tone dialer) to operate the TAD telephone. while you are away from your home or office. The TAD (telephone answering device) stores all messages on a computer chip. Adjustable Ring Selection — lets you This gives you advanced capabilities set the TAD-759 to answer the tele- over tape-based answerin
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This TAD has been tested and certified Telephone Features to comply with applicable UL and FCC Priority Memory Dialing — lets you standards. store three priority memory numbers and call them with the touch of a button. 10 Indirect Memory Locations — let WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or you quickly dial frequently-called num- shock hazard, do not expose this product to rain or moisture. bers. Tone/Pulse Dialing — lets you use ei- CAUTION ther type of service, and you can easily RISK OF ELE
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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-759 to the FCC registration number and the conform to federal regulations, and you REN to your telephone company. Both can connect it to most telephone lines. numbers are marked on the bottom of However, each device you connect to the TAD. the phone line draws power from the line. This power draw is the device’s Note: You must not connect the TAD to:
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CONTENTS Preparation .......................................................................................................... 6 Installing a Backup Battery ............................................................................. 6 Mounting the TAD ........................................................................................... 6 On a Desk Top .......................................................................................... 7 On a Wall Plate or Wall ...................
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PREPARATION Replace the battery when Lo appears INSTALLING A BACKUP on the message counter. Be sure the BATTERY AC adapter’s cord is plugged in while you replace the battery, so you do not The TAD requires AC power to operate. lose any stored information. However, if AC power fails or you un- plug the TAD-759, a 9-volt battery (not Cautions: supplied) saves the messages, time and day settings, memory numbers, and the • Always remove an old or weak bat- remote operation security code. We rec- te
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6. Plug the adapter into a standard AC On a Desk Top outlet. 1. Plug one end of the supplied long _ _ When you first connect power, modular cord into the TEL. LINE jack flashes on the message counter as on the back of the base. the TAD runs a self-test. The TAD TEL. LINE Jack beeps and 00 appears when the test is complete. On a Wall Plate or Wall Note: To mount the base directly on the wall, you need two screws (not supplied) 2. Plug the cord’s other end into a with heads that fit into the key
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3. Insert the supplied AC adapter’s barrel plug into the AC 9V jack on the back of the base. AC 9V Jack 4. To mount the phone on a wall plate, plug the other end of the modular 5. Slide the handset clip out of its cord into the wall plate jack. Then, retaining slot, rotate it 180°, then with the power cord hanging over slide it back into its slot. the bracket, align the TAD’s keyhole slots with the wall plate studs and slide the TAD downward to secure it. 6. Plug one end of the supplied coiled h
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1. Set PULSE/TONE on the back of the 1. Hold down SET until the TAD beeps. TAD to TONE. The TAD announces, “Sunday,” and 01 appears on the display. 2. Lift the handset and listen for a dial tone. Note: If necessary, adjust VOLUME 3. Press any number except 0. on the right side of the TAD to the desired listening level. Note: If your phone system requires that you dial an access code (9, for example) before you dial an outside number, do not dial the access code either. If the dial tone stops, yo
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5. Press STOP. The TAD shows the cur- rently set minute. 6. To change the minutes, repeatedly press SKIP or REPEAT. 7. Press STOP. The TAD announces the day and time. To check the current day and time at any time, press SET. SETTING THE NUMBER OF RINGS Set the ring select switch on the back of the TAD to 4, 7, or TS to set how long the TAD waits before it answers a call (4 rings, 7 rings, or toll-saver). If you plan to check your messages by long distance, set the ring select switch to TS (see
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TELEPHONE OPERATION Place and answer phone calls with the ADJUSTING THE TAD-759 as you would with any stan- HANDSET’S VOLUME dard phone. The TAD-759 has three volume levels. To adjust the volume you hear through SETTING THE RINGER’S the handset, slide HANDSET VOLUME HI/ VOLUME MED/LO to the desired volume during a call. To change the ringer’s volume, set the ringer volume switch on the back of the base to LO for a normal ringer volume, or HI for a louder ring. USING FLASH Use FLASH to perform
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in the indirect memory locations, then USING PRIVACY quickly call each number with a few key presses. To talk to someone else in the room without the person on the other end of Each memory location can store up to the phone line hearing you, hold down 15 tone digits or 16 pulse digits. PRIVACY. Release it to resume your telephone conversation. Storing Numbers in Memory Note: You will hear a dial tone during most steps of this procedure. The phone does not actually dial the number as you store it
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• For a priority memory location, Testing Stored Emergency press P1, P2, or P3. Numbers • For an indirect memory location, If you store an emergency service’s press MEMORY, then enter a two- number (police department, fire depart- digit memory location number ment, ambulance) and you want to test (01–10). the stored number, make the test call 5. To keep a record of each stored during the late evening or early morning number, use a straightened paper hours to avoid peak demand periods. clip to r
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TAD OPERATION RECORDING THE ADJUSTING THE TAD’S OUTGOING MESSAGE VOLUME Before you can set the TAD to answer To adjust the TAD’s volume, rotate VOL- calls, you must record an outgoing mes- UME on the right side of the TAD. sage (OGM). This is what the caller hears when the TAD answers a call. The outgoing message can be up to 60 sec- onds long. Hint: Do not tell callers that you are not home. Instead, say that you cannot come to the phone right now. SETTING THE TAD TO Note: If memory is full
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Note: If you pick up the phone just as RECORDING INCOMING the TAD answers, the TAD might not MESSAGES stop playing the outgoing message. If this happens, press STOP. The maximum length for each incoming message is 60 seconds. If a recording reaches 55 seconds, the TAD beeps PLAYING MESSAGES once to notify the caller that time will be up soon. If a recording reaches 60 sec- The message counter shows the total onds, the TAD beeps three times, then number of messages, both old (ones disconnects. y
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After all messages play, the TAD says, resets to answer calls. The total number “End of messages.” of messages appears. To replay a message while you are lis- To stop playing messages, press STOP tening to it, press REPEAT. The current twice quickly. The TAD beeps and stops message replays from the beginning. playback and resets to answer calls. To return to the previous message, hold down REPEAT until its number appears. DELETING MESSAGES To hear earlier messages, repeat the procedure. To delet
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Notes: RECORDING A MEMO • Be sure to set each digit within 8 A memo is a message you can record at seconds. Otherwise, you must start the TAD, without having to call in on the over at Step 1. phone. The TAD-759 can record a • If AC power fails and the backup memo of up to 60 seconds long. battery becomes weak, the remote operation security code automati- To record a memo, hold down MEMO. cally resets to 759. The TAD beeps, and the display begins counting down from 60 seconds. Speak 1. Hold down
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REMOTE OPERATION While you are away from your home or USING REMOTE office, you can use a touch-tone phone COMMANDS or a pulse (rotary) phone with a pocket tone dialer (available at your local Ra- Follow these steps to operate the TAD dioShack store) to enter your remote op- from a touch-tone phone or a pulse (ro- eration security code and do any of the tary) phone with a pocket tone dialer. following: 1. Dial your phone number. • set the TAD to answer or not answer calls 2. When the TAD answe
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After you press 4 or 5 to play messages, Remote Commands you can: Press: To: Press: To: 0 Stop playback, recording, 6 Delete the current mes- and room monitoring. sage. 1 Play the outgoing mes- 7 Replay the previous mes- sage. sage. 2 Record a new outgoing 8 Replay the current mes- message. sage. 3 Monitor the room where 9 Skip forward to the next the TAD is located for 30 message. seconds. 0 Stop message play. 4 Play all messages. 5 Play only new messages. 6 Delete messages. (The TAD wi
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TROUBLESHOOTING We do not expect you to have any problems with your TAD-759, but if you do, the fol- lowing suggestions might help. Problem Suggestion There is no dial tone. Check all phone line connections, including the handset cord. The incoming message is Be sure the TAD’s memory is not full. incomplete. The caller’s message was longer than 60 seconds. The caller was silent for more than 8 seconds. Lo flashes on the message The backup battery is weak. Replace the battery counter. (see “In
