Basic Operation; Setting The Tad To Answer Calls; Using The Announce-Only Feature - Radio Shack TAD-723 Owner's Manual

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Basic Operation

SETTING THE TAD TO
ANSWER CALLS
To set the TAD to answer calls, press
. The display turns on and the TAD
OFF
beeps twice.
Notes:
• You can use a remote phone to set the
TAD to answer calls (see "Remote Com-
mands" on Page 12).
• To set the TAD to not answer calls, turn
it off by pressing
ON/OFF
When the TAD answers a call, the outgoing
message plays, then the TAD beeps and be-
gins recording.
The caller can leave a message of up to 5
minutes in length depending on the
setting (see "Setting the Incoming Mes-
ING
sage Length" on Page 8). After the caller
hangs up or is silent for more than 7 sec-
onds, or the maximum message length is
reached, the TAD hangs up and resets to an-
swer the next call. The MESSAGE indicator
flashes to indicate an incoming message has
been recorded.
Notes:
• The MESSAGE indicator flashes rapidly
when the memory is full.
• If the TAD answers a call when its mem-
ory is full, it announces "Memory is full"
ON/
• Many local phone companies use calling
USING THE ANNOUNCE-
ONLY FEATURE
Your TAD's announce-only feature lets you
set the TAD to play a message for the caller,
then automatically hang up without letting the
.
caller leave a message.
To select the announce-only mode, slide
NOUNCE SELECT
the TAD receives a call, it plays the an-
nounce-only message then hangs up.
INCOM-
To turn off announce-only, slide
SELECT
Notes:
• You must record an announce-only mes-
• When the TAD is set for announce-only,
Basic Operation
and beeps twice, waits 10 seconds for
any remote operation commands, then
hangs up (see "Remote Commands" on
Page 12). The TAD cannot record addi-
tional messages until you delete some
of the old messages (see "Deleting Mes-
sages" on Page 10).
party control (CPC) to signal that the
caller has hung up. Your TAD can recog-
nize a CPC signal and release the line. If
the TAD records phone company mes-
sages or dial tones, your local phone
company probably does not use CPC.
to . AO
AO
to either or .
1 2
sage in order to use this feature.
you cannot set it to record calls using
the remote commands (see "Remote
Commands" on Page 12).
AN-
appears. When
ANNOUNCE
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