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- Page 1 17-9003.fm Page 1 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Cat. No. 17-9003 OWNER’S MANUAL Please read before using this pager. Tracker Alphanumeric Pager...
- Page 2 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...
- Page 3 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.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
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 ... 11 Setting the Date, Time, and Time Format ... 11 Setting the Date Format ... - Page 5 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 ...
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Page 6: Getting Started
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... - Page 7 17-9003.fm Page 7 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 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.
- Page 8 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 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.
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Page 9: Pager Quick Guide
17-9003.fm Page 9 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PAGER QUICK GUIDE Alert Menu Speaker Button Function/Select Buttons... -
Page 10: Indicators
17-9003.fm Page 10 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM INDICATORS Your pager displays the following symbols. Audible alert mode Silent (vibrate) alert mode Protected message Duplicate message Message continuation Daily alarm Timer Low battery... -
Page 11: Pager Set-Up
17-9003.fm Page 11 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PAGER SET-UP SETTING THE DATE, TIME, AND TIME FORMAT 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. - Page 12 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 – , for example), then repeats that sequence when it reaches the end. 1. At the standby display, press...
- Page 13 17-9003.fm Page 13 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 5. To select the other time format, press format flashes, then press flash. To keep the current time format, simply press The year digits flash. 6. Repeatedly press to select the current year, then press .
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Page 14: Setting The Date Format
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. -
Page 15: Setting The Message Alert
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 —... -
Page 16: Selecting An Audible Alert
17-9003.fm Page 16 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Selecting an Audible Alert 1. At the standby display, press appears and the last selected alert symbol flashes. 2. Press appears, and the cur- Sound ON/OFF rent setting ( ) flashes. -
Page 17: Selecting A Silent Alert
17-9003.fm Page 17 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Selecting a Silent Alert 1. At the standby display, press appears and the last selected alert symbol flashes. 2. Press appears, and the cur- Sound ON/OFF rent setting ( ) flashes. -
Page 18: Using Audible/Silent Quick-Set
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 hold for a few seconds. Set Alerts appears... -
Page 19: Setting The Alert Length
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. -
Page 20: Operation
17-9003.fm Page 20 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM OPERATION TURNING THE PAGER ON/OFF To turn on the pager, press and hold onds until appears on the display. The Power ON pager sounds an alert tone or vibrates and briefly turns on all indicators, then the standby display ap- pears. - Page 21 17-9003.fm Page 21 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM • The display lights for about 45 seconds each time you turn the pager on or press a button. (The light turns off soon after the standby display reap- pears). • To conserve battery power, turn off the pager when you are not using it (when you are not expecting pages, for example).
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Page 22: Memory Capacity
17-9003.fm Page 22 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM MEMORY CAPACITY Your pager can store up to 16 messages (or a maxi- mum of 640 characters) in its memory. If the pager’s memory is full when it receives a new message, the new message replaces the oldest unprotected mes- sage in memory. -
Page 23: Receiving/Reading Messages
17-9003.fm Page 23 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM RECEIVING/READING MESSAGES Receiving Messages When the pager receives a message, it alerts (beeps or vibrates) and displays the incoming message for up to 44 seconds (depending on the alert length selected —... -
Page 24: Reading Messages
17-9003.fm Page 24 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Reading Messages To read all messages stored in memory, repeatedly press . Each time you press a button, the pag- er displays the next message and the time it was re- ceived (time stamp). - Page 25 17-9003.fm Page 25 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Notes: • The characters (such as in the lower-left corner of the display before the time stamp are part of a paging-address feature not supported by your carrier. • The first time you press unread message, the pager alerts again (for up to 44 seconds).
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Page 26: Using Automatic Message-Scroll
17-9003.fm Page 26 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM • You can set the pager to sound a reminder alert at preset intervals for up to 3 hours to remind you of unread messages. See “Using the Reminder Alert” on Page 32. -
Page 27: Duplicate Messages
17-9003.fm Page 27 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Duplicate Messages If your pager receives a message that is the same as one already stored in memory (read or unread), appears when the pager displays the duplicate mes- sage. After you read a duplicate message, the pager saves only one copy of it, showing the most recent time that the message was received. -
Page 28: Protecting And Unprotecting Messages
17-9003.fm Page 28 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PROTECTING AND UNPROTECTING MESSAGES Your pager lets you protect up to eight messages from being replaced if the memory becomes full. Fol- low these steps to protect or unprotect messages. 1. Repeatedly press to select the message you want to protect or unprotect. -
Page 29: Deleting Messages
17-9003.fm Page 29 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Note: If appears and the pager beeps twice *FULL* when you press to protect a message, eight mes- sages are currently protected. To protect another message, you must first unprotect or delete (see “De- leting Messages”) one of those eight. - Page 30 17-9003.fm Page 30 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 3. Press flashes on the display. Delete 4. Press three times to delete the message. As you press the button, the pager displays (not flashing), Delete . Then the next oldest message Deleted appears.
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Page 31: Deleting All Messages
17-9003.fm Page 31 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Deleting All Messages Caution: This procedure deletes all messages (pro- tected and unprotected) stored in memory. 1. Turn off the pager. 2. Press and hold until appears. 3. To delete all messages in memory, press... -
Page 32: Special Features
17-9003.fm Page 32 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM SPECIAL FEATURES USING THE REMINDER ALERT To remind you of any unread messages, you can set your pager to sound an alert (at intervals of 1, 2, 5, 10, then every 30 minutes) for up to 3 hours or until you press a button. -
Page 33: Setting The Message Scroll Speed
17-9003.fm Page 33 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM SETTING THE MESSAGE SCROLL SPEED Your pager is preset to display each message for about 2 seconds when you set the pager to automati- cally scroll through all messages stored in memory (see “Using Automatic Message-Scroll”... - Page 34 17-9003.fm Page 34 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 3. Press so the current setting flashes, then repeatedly press until the setting you want to use flashes. 4. Press to store your selection. The standby dis- play reappears.
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Page 35: Using The Daily Alarm
17-9003.fm Page 35 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM USING THE DAILY ALARM You can set your pager to sound an alarm at the same time each day. At the set alarm time, appears, flashes, and the pager sounds a silent or audible alarm (depending on the selected message alert type) for about 30 seconds. - Page 36 17-9003.fm Page 36 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 2. Press . The last set alarm time and ON/OFF appear, and the current alarm setting ) flashes. 3. If is flashing, press press . The hour digit(s) flash. 4. Repeatedly press...
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Page 37: Turning The Daily Alarm Off/On
17-9003.fm Page 37 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Turning the Daily Alarm Off/On Follow these steps to turn off the alarm or turn it back 1. At the standby display, press appears. Alarm 2. Press . The last set alarm time and... -
Page 38: Using The Timer
17-9003.fm Page 38 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM USING THE TIMER You can set your pager to sound an alert after a set amount of time (up to 99 minutes) has passed — just like a timer. After a set number of minutes has... - Page 39 17-9003.fm Page 39 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM 3. Repeatedly press to set the number of min- utes, then press Run/Stop flashes. Stop Notes: • As you press , the pager scrolls forward from 1-99 minutes, then repeats that sequence when it reaches the end.
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Page 40: Stopping The Timer
17-9003.fm Page 40 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM Stopping the Timer Follow these steps to stop the running timer before the timer alert sounds. 1. At the standby display, press press until Set Timer appears. 2. Press Run/Stop and the remaining time appear, and flash. -
Page 41: Pager Ideas
17-9003.fm Page 41 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM PAGER IDEAS Include your pager number in your answering ma- chine or voice mail messages. This way, you can re- ceive important messages immediately. Leave your pager number at your children’s school and with the babysitter so you can always be reached in an emergency. -
Page 42: Care
17-9003.fm Page 42 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM CARE To enjoy your pager for a long time: • Keep the pager dry. If it gets wet, wipe it dry immediately. • Use and store the pager only in normal tempera- ture environments. -
Page 43: Fcc Information
17-9003.fm Page 43 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM FCC INFORMATION Your pager might cause TV or radio interference even when it is operating properly. To determine whether your pager is causing the interference, turn off the pager. If the interference goes away, your pager is causing the interference. - Page 44 17-9003.fm Page 44 Friday, July 23, 1999 9:42 AM This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules . Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) this device may not cause any harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept interference received, including interference that may cause undesired oper- ation.