Using The Telephone Base - VTech DS6291 User Manual

• You can transfer the call. Press
OPTION
and then press
to select Transfer on the calling
handset. Your screen shows
Call transferred. The other device
automatically connects to the
outside call.
• You can let the other device join
you on the outside call in a three-
way conversation. Press OPTION.
Press or
call, then press SELECT.
• You can end the intercom call and
continue the outside call with your
handset. Press CANCEL
HOME,
CELL 2
on your handset (the
ended intercom call party hears
four beeps).
NOTES
• If you want to cancel an intercom call and
reconnect to the outside call before the
destination handset answers, press
CANCEL on the originating handset. .
• If the called device is not answered within
100 seconds, or accessing the directory
or caller ID log, or is on a call, or is out of
range, the initiating device shows
No answer. Try again.

Using the telephone base:

1. During the call, press OPTION.
SELECT
2. Press
• If you have one handset, the
handset shows Calling HANDSET.
• If you have more than one handset,
the handset shows
TO:
Use the dialing keys to e e nter
a specific handset number (1-9 for
handsets 1-9,
0-2 for handsets 10-12, or
TONE followed by # for all
handsets), or press
or PHONEBOOK / to scroll to the
desired device and press
SELECT
to highlight Share
END,
,
CELL 1 or
to choose Intercom.
INTERCOM
TONE followed by
CALLER ID /
SELECT.
The call is automatically put on hold.
Your handset screen shows Calling
HANDSET X or Calling all, The
destination handset(s) rings and
displays BASE 0 is calling.
3. To answer the call on any destination
handset, press
CELL 1,
key (0-9, TONE ). Both the handset
and the telephone base now show
Intercom.
4. From this intercom call, you have the
following options:
• You can transfer the call. Press
OPTION
and then press
to select Transfer on the telephone
base. The telephone base shows
Call transferred. The destination
handset automatically connects to
the outside call.
• You can let the handset join you
on the outside call in a three-way
conversation. Press OPTION.
Press CALLER ID /
or PHONEBOOK / to highlight
Share call, then press SELECT.
• You can end the intercom call and
continue the outside call on the
telephone base. Press CANCEL,
END CELL 1,
,
telephone base. The destination
handset shows Intercom ended.
NOTES
• To cancel the transfer call and return to
the external call before the intercom call is
answered, press CANCEL on the telephone
base.
• If the other handset does not answer the inter-
com call within 100 seconds, or if the other
handset is in the directory or caller ID log, or is
out of range, the initiating device shows
No answer. Try again. and returns to the out-
side call.
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HOME, ,
CELL 2
or any dialing
SELECT
CELL 2
on the