Radio Shack ET-545 User Manual

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Cat. No. 43-1045

OWNER’S MANUAL

Please read before using this equipment.

ET-545

25-Channel Caller ID

Cordless Telephone

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FEATURES

Your RadioShack ET-545 25-Channel
Caller ID Cordless Telephone offers
the latest advances in cordless phone
technology. Additionally, it includes an
integrated Caller ID system.

The ET-545 has these features:

Caller ID Memor

— stores and dis­plays up to 100 incoming number or
name and number call records.

Caller ID Memor

Dialing

— lets you
select a stored phone number from
Calle r ID me m or y, the n d i al it wit h the
touch of a button.

VIP Call List with Distinctive Rin

— lets you store 20 phone numbers
from Caller ID records and set the
phone to sound a distinctive ring when
someone calls from those numbers.

30-Number Memor

Dialin

— lets
you store 30 numbers in memory for
easy dialing.

Auto Scan

— automatically selects a
clear channel when you pick up the
phone. You can also manually change
to any of 25 channels during a call.

Advanced Super CCT Circuitr

—
provides clarity comparable to a cord­ed phone, reduces background noise,
and increases effective operating dis­tance.

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COM-LOK

— ensures that other
cordless phone users cannot use y our
phone line while the handset is on the
base.

Automatic Securit

Access Code

—
changes each time you unplug the
phone from AC power to help prevent
other cordless phone users from using
your phone line while the handset is
off the base.

— sends an electronic switch-

Flash

hook signal for use with special phone
services such as Call Waiting.

Review Scrollin

— lets you scroll
through all records in Caller ID memo­ry and stored number memory.

Displa

— lets you see phone num­bers as you dial them or recall them
from the ET-545’s memory and Caller
ID records.

© 1997 Tandy Corporation.

COM-LOK is a registered trademark used by Tandy Corporation.

RadioShack is a trademark used by Tandy Corporation

All Rights Reserv ed .

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Volume Control

— lets you control
the volume of the sound you hear
through the handset.

Li

hted Keypad

— lights when you
press a key or when the phone rings
to make the phone easy to use in a
dark room.

CAUTION

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Redial — redials t he last number di­aled, with the touch of a button.

Page — lets you send a paging signal
from the base to the hands et to help
locate a misplaced handset or page
someone at the handset.

Touch Tone or Pulse (Rotary) Dial­ing — lets you connect your phone to

either type of service.
Please read this Owner’s Manual

carefully so you can enjoy all of your
telephone’s features.

We recommend you record the
phone’s serial number here. The num­ber is on the bottom of the base.

Serial Number: ______________
This telephone has been tested and

found to comply with all applicable UL
and FCC standards.

Important Caller ID
Information

For the ET-545’s Caller ID memory
dial feature to operate, you must re­ceive the caller’s number.

Warning: To prevent f ire or shoc k
hazard, do not expose this product
to rain or moisture.

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK.

DO NOT OPEN.

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF
ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE
COVER OR BACK. NO USER-SERVICE­ABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVIC­ING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL.

This symbol is intended to aler t you
to the p r es en c e o f un in su lated d an ­gerous voltage within the product’s
enclosure that might be of suf ficient
magnitude to constitute a risk of
electric shock. Do not open the
product’s case.

This symbol is intended to inform
you that important operating and

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maintenance instructions are in­cluded in the literature accompany­ing this product.

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To use the System’s Caller ID fea­tures, you must be in an area whe re
Caller ID service is available and you
must subs cr i be to th at se r vice.

Where Caller ID is offered, one or
more of the following options are ge n­erally available:

• Caller’s number only

• Caller’s name only

• Caller’s name and number

Important: Cordless phones such as
this one require AC power to operate.
When the A C power is off, you cannot
dial out or receive i ncoming calls us­ing your ET-545. For this reason, the
ET-545 cordless phone s hould not be
your only telephone. To be safe, y ou
should also have a phone that does
not require AC power to operate (not a
cordless phone) so you can still make
and receive calls if there is an AC
power failure.

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Your ET-545 operates on standard ra­dio frequencies, as allocated by the
FCC. Therefore, it is possible for other
radio units operating on similar fre­quencies, within a certain area, to in­advertently intercept your conversa­tions and/or cause interference on
your cordless telephone. This lack of
privacy can occur with any cordless
telephone.

READ THIS BEFORE
INSTALLATION

We have designed your te lephone to
conform to federal regulations, and
you can connect it to mos t telephone
lines. However, each device that you
connect to the phone line draws pow­er from the phone line. We refer to this
power draw as the device’s

equivalence number

REN is on the bottom of your phone’s
base.

, or REN. The

ringer

FCC STATEM ENT

This telephone complies with Part 68

FCC Rules

of
quest, provide the FCC registration
number and the REN to your phone
company. These numbers are on the
bottom of your phone’s base.

Note:

phone to any of the following:

You must not connect your

• Coin-operated systems

• Party-line systems

• Most electronic key phone sys­tems

. You must, upon re-

If you are using more than one phone
or other device on t he line, add up all
the RENs. If the total is more than five,
your phone might not ring. In rural ar­eas, a total REN of three might im pair
ringer operation. If ringer operation is
impaired, remove a device from the
line.

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CONTENTS

Preparation ........................................................................................................... 6

Selecting a Location ........................................................................................ 6

Connecting the Base ....................................................................................... 6

Connecting the Battery Pack .......................................................................... 7

Charging the Battery Pack .............................................................................. 7

Setting the Dialing Mode ................................................................................. 9

Storing an Area Code ........................................................ ....... .......... .. ....... ... 9

Phone Operation ................................................................................................ 10

Making/Answering a Call .............................................................................. 10

At the Base ............................................................................................. 10

Away from the Base ............................................................................... 10

Reducing Interference ........................................................................... ..... ... 11

Using REDIAL ............................................................................................... 11

Using FLASH/DEL ........................................................................................ 12

Using Tone Services on a Pulse Line . .......................................................... 12

Using PAGE .................................................................................................. 12

Memory Dialing ............................................................................................. 13

Storing a Name and Number in Memory ................................................ 13

Entering a Pause in a Memory Number ................................................. 15

Reviewing Numbers Stored in Memory .................................................. 15

Dialing a Stored Number ........................................................................ 15

Deleting a Number from Memory ........................................................... 16

Storing/Chain Dialing Service Numbers ................................................. 16

Testing Stored Emergency Numbers ...................................................... 16

Caller ID O peration ............................................................................................ 17

Caller ID Di splays ......................................................................................... 17

Reviewing Caller ID Records ........................................................................ 18

Dialing Numbers from a Caller ID Record ..................................................... 18

Deleting Caller ID Records ........................................................................... 19

VIP Call List .................................................................................................. 19

Storing Records in th e VIP Call List ....................................................... 19

Reviewing the VIP Call List .................................................................... 20

Deleting Records from the VIP Call List ................................................. 20

Dialing a Nu mber from the VIP Call List ................................................. 20

Troubleshootin

Care and Maintenance ...................................................................................... 23

Replacing the Battery Pack ........................................................................... 24

The FCC Wants You to Know ....................................................................... 24

Lightning ....................................................................................................... 25

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PREPARATION

SELECTING A
LOCATION

Select a location for the telephone that
is:

• Near an AC outlet

• Near a telephone line jack

• Out of the way of normal activities

• Away from electrical machinery,
electrical appliances, and metal
walls or filing cabinets

• Away from wireless intercoms,
alarms, and room monitors

The base’s location affects the phone’s
range. If you have a choi ce of several
locations, try each to see which pro­vides the best performance.

If the phone line jack is not a

Note:

modular jack, you can update the wir­ing yourself, using jacks and adapt ers
available at your local RadioShack
store. Or, you can let the phon e com­pany update the wiring for you. The
USOC number of the jack to be in­stalled is RJ11C.

CONNECTING THE BASE

Follow these steps to set up and con­nect the base.

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1. Plug one end of the supplied mod­ular cord into the
on the back of the base.

2. Plug the modular cord’s other end
into a modular phone line jack.

3. Plug the supplied AC adapter’s
barrel plug into the
the back of the base.

4. Plug the adapter into a standard
AC outlet.

5. Fully extend the base’s antenna
and place it in a vertical position.

TEL. LINE

12V DC

jack on

jack

Caution:

12V DC adapter that delivers at least
200 milliamps. Its center tip must be
positive, and its plug must correctly fit
the phone’s
adapter meets these requirements.
Using an adapter that does not meet
these requirements cou ld damage t he
phone or the adapter.

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You must use a 120V AC/

12V DC

jack. The supplied

handset

and

CHARGE/

TALK indicator

on base

illustration

of LOW

BATT

indicator

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CONNECTING THE
BATTERY PACK

Before you use your phone for the first
time, you must connect the battery
pack in the handset and cha rge it for
about 15 hours.

Slide off the battery compartment cov­er on the back of the handset. Con­nect the battery pack’s plug to the pins
inside the compartment. Then replace
the cover.

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CHARGING THE
BATTERY PACK

Charge the battery pack by placing
the handset on the base so the
CHARGE/TALK indicator lights. Let
the battery pack charge for about 15
hours.

You can recharge the battery pack at
any time, but be sure to recharge it
when LOW BATT on the handset
lights.

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Notes:

• You can set

POWER

to ON while

the battery pack charges.

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• The first time you use y our phone
after charging a new battery pack ,
the handset might not work and
might sound an error tone when
you press

TA LK

. This might also
occur when you recharge a bat­tery pack that has been com­pletely discharged.

If this happens, return the handset
to the base for 5 seconds with

POWER

set to ON. This res ets the

automatic security access code.

• If the CHARGE/TALK indicator
does not light wh en you place the
handset on the base, be s ure the
battery pack is connected to the
pins inside the handset’s battery
compartment and the A C adapter
is securely connected to the base.

Also, check the charging contacts
on the handset and base. If the
contacts on the base are dirty or
tarnished, gently clean them with
a small brush. If the contacts on
the handset are dirty or tarnished,
clean them with a pencil eraser.

Ill us of cont acts on
both the handset
and the base

• About once a month, fully dis­charge the battery pack by keep­ing the handset off the base until
LOW BATT lights. Then return the
handset to the base and fully
recharge the battery pack. If you
do not fully discharge and
recharge the battery pack periodi­cally, it loses its ability to fully
recharge.

• To avoid damage to the battery
pack, always recharge the hand­set before battery power grows
too weak to light the LOW BATT
indicator.

• If you are not going to use your
phone for an extended period of
time, disconnect its battery. This
helps to increase the battery’s
usable life.

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SETTING THE D IALING
MODE

TONE/PULSE

Set
base for the type of service you have.
If you are not sure which type you
have, once the battery is charged, do
this test.

1. Set

2. Set

3. Lift the handset, press

POWER
TONE/PULSE

listen for a dial tone.

on the back of the

to ON.

TONE

to

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TA LK

.

and

If the dial tone continues, you
have pulse service. Set

PULSE

to

PULSE

.

TONE/

STORING AN AREA
CODE

To quickly dial local calls using the
Caller ID and stored nu mber features,
you need to store your local area code
in the system. Then, when you dial a
call using
skips the area code if it matche s the
one you stored.

Note:

code or the phone will not dial more
than 7 digits when you dial numbers
from a Caller ID record.

Hold down
when the
play shows
ter your 3-digit area code. The phone
sounds two long beeps.

DIAL

You must store your local area

TALK

DIAL 1+

or

FLASH/DEL

key is not lit. The dis-

, the ET-545

for 3 seconds

ENTER AREA CODE

. En-

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4. Press any number other than
If the dial tone stops, you have

touch-tone service. Leave

PULSE

set to

TONE

.

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TONE/

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