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43-734.fm Page 1 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM Cat. No. 43-734 OWNER’S MANUAL Please read before using this equipment. TAD-734 900 MHz Cordless Speakerphone Digital Answering System with Caller ID...
Caller ID service CAUTION subscribers. And, if you subscribe to RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK. Call Waiting with Caller ID, the TAD-734 DO NOT OPEN. can show you the incoming caller infor- CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF...
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43-734.fm Page 3 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM 3-Line Liquid Crystal Display — lets Auto Talk — you can set the phone so you view an entire Caller ID record on you can answer a call simply by lifting one screen.
Digital Volume Control — lets you pre- FCC STATEMENT cisely adjust the speakerphone and message playback. Your TAD-734 complies with Part 68 of FCC Rules . You must, upon request, Important Caller ID Information provide the FCC registration number and the REN to your phone company.
43-734.fm Page 5 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM CONTENTS Installation ....................... 7 Mounting the Phone ................... 7 On a Desk Top ..................... 7 On a Wall Plate or Wall ................8 Connecting and Charging the Battery Pack ............9 Setting the Dialing Mode ..................
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43-734.fm Page 6 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM TAD Operation ....................... 24 Selecting the Outgoing Message ..............24 Recording/Deleting an Outgoing Message ............24 Setting the Record Time ................... 24 Setting the TAD to Answer Calls ..............25 Screening Calls ....................25 Recording Incoming Messages ................
MOUNTING THE PHONE Notes: • Your telephone connects directly to You can place the TAD-734’s base on a a modular telephone line jack. If desk or table, mount it on a standard your phone line jack is not a modu- wall plate, or mount it directly on a wall.
43-734.fm Page 8 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM 4. Route the adapter’s cord through 4. Route the adapter and modular the strain relief slot on the bottom of cords through the grooves on the the base. bracket. 5. Plug the adapter into a standard AC outlet.
PACK on the bottom of the bracket. The TAD-734 comes with a recharge- Follow the steps under “On a Wall Plate able nickel-cadmium battery pack in- or Wall” on Page 8, then apply these ad-...
43-734.fm Page 10 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM To charge the battery pack, simply place pack. (The battery power might be the handset on the base, facing either too low to light the display.) up or down. The CHARGE/IN USE indi- •...
43-734.fm Page 11 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM 1. Set (tone). (and the TAD’s handset if it is away from DIAL MODE the base) still ring and the CHARGE/IN USE indicator on the base flickers when there is an incoming call. 2.
43-734.fm Page 12 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM SETTING THE NUMBER 1. Hold down until the TAD CLOCK beeps. The TAD announces the cur- OF RINGS rently set day and displays the day’s number ( for Sunday, for Mon- on the right side of the RING TIME day, and so on).
Page 22), you must store your local area to the base. code in the TAD-734’s memory. Then, when you dial from a Caller ID record, the TAD-734 skips the area code if it TURNING CALLER ID/ matches the one you stored. CALL WAITING ON/OFF Follow these steps to store your area code.
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43-734.fm Page 14 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM 2. Press twice) to select Area Code 3. Press , then enter your 3- SELECT digit area code. If you make a mis- take, press to move the cur- sor to the incorrect entry, then enter the correct number.
43-734.fm Page 15 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM TELEPHONE OPERATION MAKING AND RECEIVING Adjusting the Handset Volume CALLS WITH THE To adjust the volume you hear through HANDSET the handset during a call, press to in- crease or to decrease the volume. To make a call, lift the handset and The display shows Volume Maximum...
43-734.fm Page 16 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM ANSWERING CALLS WITH Using Both the Handset and Speakerphone THE SPEAKERPHONE If someone else is using the speaker- To answer a call using the speaker- phone, press on the handset to TALK phone, press on the base.
43-734.fm Page 17 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM USING REDIAL tional numbers you dial are sent as tone signals. To quickly dial the last number dialed, lift the handset and press REDIAL/PAUSE Then press TALK 3. When you hang up, the phone auto- matically resets to pulse dialing.
43-734.fm Page 18 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM MEMORY DIALING If you do not want to enter a name, skip to Step 5. will be <Memory n> stored as the name (n is the location You can store up to 10 phone numbers number you selected).
43-734.fm Page 19 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM 8. Press . The phone beeps . Returns you to the list of SELECT Go Back appears. memory numbers. Memory n Stored After 2 seconds, Memory Store appears. Repeat Steps 3–8 to store Entering a Pause more numbers.
43-734.fm Page 20 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM Dialing a Memory Number USING A HEADSET To dial a number stored in memory, lift You can talk with hands-free conve- the handset and press . The list of nience using an optional headset that memory location numbers appears.
Caller ID, you will hear a tone through the handset when a call comes in, then the Caller ID record appears. If the TAD-734’s Caller ID memory be- comes full, any new call replaces the oldest call record. REVIEWING CALLER ID...
43-734.fm Page 22 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM Caller ID Messages Display Description Shows the number of new Caller ID records (records you have New: XX not reviewed) and the total number of records. Total: XX The caller has blocked the Caller ID information from being sent. Private Name Private Number The caller is not within a Caller ID service.
43-734.fm Page 23 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM If the selected location is empty, the phone beeps to confirm that it stored the number, then the Caller ID record ap- pears. If a record exists in the selected loca- tion, appears, Replace Memory?
, or to deter- REC TIME You can also record your own message mine how the TAD-734 will record in- (see “Recording/Deleting an Outgoing coming messages. Message”). When you record your own outgoing message, the TAD uses it for settings.
• The maximum message length is reached. • The TAD detects a busy signal or more than 7 seconds of silence. • You pick up the TAD-734’s handset or any phone on the same phone line. SCREENING CALLS Note: When the TAD’s message memo-...
The TAD-734 stores a recorded conver- MEMO sation as a message (see “Playing Mes- sages”). Notes: • The TAD-734 cannot record a con- versation less than two seconds long, or a call using the speaker- phone. • The maximum length for recording Press to listen to the memo.
TAD re- plays the previous message. SETTING THE REMOTE OPERATION PIN ADJUSTING THE TAD’S The TAD-734’s two-digit remote opera- VOLUME tion PIN (personal identification number) prevents unauthorized remote access to To adjust the speaker’s volume, repeat- your messages.
Note: You cannot remotely operate the old messages. The TAD plays all TAD-734 using its handset or another new messages then beeps about telephone on the same line as the TAD. once every two seconds to let you know it is ready to accept remote commands.
43-734.fm Page 29 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM • When the TAD is in remote opera- Remote Commands tion, it stops all answering func- tions and the display on the base Press shows . The TAD resumes # then: answering functions when it is no longer in remote command if you Repeat current message dur-...
43-734.fm Page 30 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM TROUBLESHOOTING We do not expect you to have any problems with your TAD-734, but if you do, these suggestions might help. Problem Suggestion Low volume or unusual sounds. Someone has picked up another phone on the same line.
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Call your phone company to verify that your Caller ID service is active. If you still have problems, disconnect the TAD-734. If other phones on the same line work properly, the fault is in this phone or its installation. If you cannot find the prob-...
FCC authorization to oper- ate it. If your TAD-734 is not performing as it should, take it to your local RadioShack store for assistance. If the trouble is affecting the telephone lines, the phone company can ask you to disconnect your TAD-734 until you have resolved the problem.
43-734.fm Page 33 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM REPLACING THE Cautions: BATTERY PACK • You must use a replacement battery of the same size and type. If you follow the instructions in “Connect- • Do not dispose of the battery in a ing and Charging the Battery Pack”...
43-734.fm Page 34 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM THE FCC WANTS YOU TO If you cannot eliminate the interference, the FCC requires that you stop using KNOW your phone. In the unlikely event that your phone Some cordless telephones operate on causes problems on the phone line, the frequencies that might cause interfer- phone company can temporarily discon-...
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43-734.fm Page 35 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM NOTES...
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43-734.fm Page 36 Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:42 AM Limited One-Year Warranty This product is warranted by RadioShack against manufacturing defects in material and workman- ship under normal use for one (1) year from the date of purchase from RadioShack company-owned stores and authorized RadioShack franchisees and dealers.
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