Radio Shack 17-9003 User Manual
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Cat. No. 17-9003
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this pager.
Tracker A lphanumeric Pager
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INTRODUCTION
Your Tracker Alphanumeric Pager lets you keep in
touch with the office and with family and friends anywhere around town. It can stor e up to 16 alp hanum eric messages (or a maximum of 640 characters) and
alerts you with either a gentle vibration, a vibration
and single beep, a melody, or one of two beep patterns. The pager also has these features:
Clock —
displays t he current date and time when you
are not viewing a message, and lets you change the
time (12- or 24-hour) and date (M/D/Y or D/M/Y) display formats.
Daily Alarm —
lets you set the pager to sound an
alarm at a set time each day.
Message Protect —
lets you prot ect up to eight mes-
sages from accidental deletion.
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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 messa ges scroll.
Page Reminder — lets you set the pager to sound a
series of alerts to remind you to view unread pages.
Timer — lets you set the pager to sound an alert aft er
a set amount of time (up to 99 minutes) has passed.
Be sure you thoroughly read these instructions to ensure that you fully understand your pager’s operation.
Note: You need one AAA battery (not supplied) to
power your pager.
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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 ........................................... 14
Setting The Message Alert ...................................... 15
Selecting an Audible Alert ................................ 16
Selecting a Silent Alert ..................................... 17
Using Audible/Silent Quick-Set ........................ 18
Setting the Alert Length ................................... 19
Operation ... ................... ............... .................... ............... 20
Turning the Pager On/Off ......................................... 20
Memory Capacity ..................................................... 22
Receiving/Reading Messages ................................. 23
Receiving Messages ........................................ 23
Reading Messages .......................................... 24
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Using Autom ati c Mes sage -Sc rol l ......... .... .... .... 26
Duplicate Messages ........................................ 27
Tone Only or Unreadable Messages ............... 27
Protecting and Unprotecting Messages ................... 28
Deleting Messages .................................................. 29
Deleting Individual Messages .......................... 29
Deletin g All Mes sa ges .. .... .... .... .... ............... .... 31
Special Features ............................................................ 32
Using the Reminder Alert ......................................... 32
Setting the Message Scroll Speed ........................... 33
Using the Daily Alarm .............................................. 35
Setting the Daily Alarm Time ........................... 35
Turning the Daily Alarm Off/On ........................ 37
Using the Timer ........................................................ 38
Setting/Sta rti ng the Timer ......... ............... .... .... 38
Stopping the Timer . .... ... .... .... ............... .... .... .... 40
Pager Ideas ..................................................................... 41
Care .... .................... ................... ................... ............... .... 42
FCC Informatio n ........ .... .... ............... .... .... ... ............ 43
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GETTING STARTED
SUBSCRIBING TO SERVICE
You must subscribe to paging service through MobileComm before you can start receiving messages.
To activate your pager, call MobileComm or its associated carr ier at the telephone num ber listed in the activation instructions provided with your pager’s
activation packet.
INSTALLING A BATTERY
Your pager requires one AAA battery. For the best
performance and longest life, we reco mmend an alkaline battery, such as RadioShack Cat. No. 23-555.
Caution:
size and type.
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Always use a fresh battery of the required
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2
1. Slide off the battery cover in the direction of the
arrow.
2. Place a battery in the compartment according to
the polarity sym bols (+ and –) marked inside.
3. Replace the cover.
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When battery power becomes low, the pager sounds
an alert every few seconds,
Change Battery
appears, 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 occu rs.
Notes:
• If you press a button to stop the alert, the pager
displays (and
Change Battery
instead of
the time on the standby display) until you replace
the battery.
• The pager’s built-in memory stores messages
and settings for at least 2 minutes while you
change the battery or after the battery loses
power.
• Always dispose of old batteries promptly and
properly; do not burn or bury them.
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PAGER QUICK GUIDE
Alert
Speaker
Menu
Button
Function/Select
Buttons
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INDICATORS
Your pager displays the following symbols.
or Audible alert mode
or Silent (vibrate) alert mode
Protect ed mes sag e
Duplicate mes sag e
or Message continuation
Daily alarm
Timer
Low battery
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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 form at.
Notes:
• If you do not set the time, the pager incorrectly
reports the tim es of your pages.
• If you do not press a button for about 40 seconds
during these steps (or while setting any of the
pager’s features), the pager returns to the time/
date (standby) display. Try again.
• To rapidly advance the setting during these steps
(or while setting any other feature), simply press
and hold that button.
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• When you press in Steps 3–8, the pager
scrolls forward through that setting’s sequence
(years
, for example), then repeats that
95–13
sequence when it reaches the end.
1. At the standby display, press then repeatedly
press until
Set Clock
M
appears.
2. Press . The hour digit(s) flash.
3. Repeatedly press to select the hour, then
press . The minute digits fl ash.
Note: If you previously selected the 12-hour time
format, be sure to select the correct AM or PM
hour so
or PM appears.
AM
4. Repeatedly press to select the minutes, then
press .
and 24 appear (for 12- or 24-hour
12
time format), and the last selected format flashes.
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5. To select the other time format, press so that
format flashes, then press . The year digits
flash.
To keep the current time format, simply press .
The year digits flash.
6. Repeatedly press to select the current year,
then press . The month digit s fl ash.
7. Repeatedly press to select the current month,
then press . The day digit s fl ash.
8. Repeatedly press to select the current day of
the month, then press to store the selected
settings. The standby display reappears showing
the current date and time.
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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 t he date format, follow these
steps.
1. At the standby display, press then repeatedly
press until
2. Press , then repeatedl y press until
3. Press . The currently selected date format
4. Press to select the other date format, then
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and the currently selected format (
dar:
or
D/M/Y
flashes.
press to store your selec ti on. The standby display reappears showing the date in the selected
forma t.
Set Options
) appear.
M
M
appears.
Calen-
M/D/Y
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