Radio Shack ET-905 User Manual

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900 MHz Cordless Telephone

Cat. No. 43-1080

OWNER’S MANUAL

Please read before using this equipment.

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FEATURES

Your Radio Shack ET-905 900 MHz
Cordless Telephone uses the most
advanced analog cordless telephone
technology to give you superior au­dio quality. It uses the recently allo­cated 900 MHz band that virtually
eliminates interference caused by
other cordless phones using the
same frequency, while providing
clearer sound and greater range than
46/49 MHz cordless telephones. Its
cordless operation lets you move
freely about your home or office.

Its features include:

900 MHz Operation —

provides bet­ter quality sound (over twice the
range of 46/49 MHz cordless
phones) and less interference than
many other cordless phones.

60 Channels —

continuously scans
60 channels (frequency pairs used
between the base and the handset )
and selects the one with the least in­terference each time you make or re­ceive a call.

20-Memor

Dialing —

lets you
quickly dial numbers you have stored
in memory .

DD —

lets you quickly dial a num ber
you stored in direct dial memory by
pressing one button.

Pa

stem —

lets you send a
signal from the base to the handset
so you can page someone or eas ily
locate the handset when it is away
from the base.

Privac

prevents the person on

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the other end of the phone line from
hearing your conversation with
someone in the room.

Flash —

sends an electronic swich­hook signal for use with special
phone services such as call waiting.

Redial —

lets you quickly dial the last

number dialed.

Pause —

lets you store a pause in a
memory number for use with a phone
system that requires an outside ac­cess number (for example, 9).

Rin

er Volume —

adjusts the

base’s ringer volume to three levels

high, low, or off.

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Touch Tone (DTMF) or Pulse Dial-

lets you use yo ur phone with

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either type of dialing.

Hearin

Aid Compatib le —

lets you
use this telephone with hearing aids
that have a T (telephone) switch.

© 1995 Tandy Corporation.

All Rights Reserved.

Radio Shack is a regi stered trademark used by Tandy Corporation.

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For your records, we recommend
you record the phone’s serial number
in the space below. The number is on
the base’s label.

Serial Number:
Warning: To prevent fire or shock

hazard, do not expose this product to
rain or moisture.

CAUTION

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 alert
you to th e pres ence of un insu lat­ed dangerous voltage within the
produc t ’ s en closu re th a t m i ght be
of suffici ent magnitude to con sti­tute a risk of electric shock. Do not
open the produ ct’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 pro duct.

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READ THIS BEFORE
INSTALLATION

Your telephone conforms to federal
regulations, and you can connect it to
most telephone lines. However, each
device you connect to the phone line
draws power from the phone line. We
refer to this power draw as the de­vice’s ringer equivalence number, or
REN. The REN is on the label on the
phone base’s back.

If you are using more than one phone
or other device on the 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
impair ringer operation. If ringer op­eration is impaired, remove a device
from the line

Important: Cordless phones such as
this one require AC power to operate.
When AC power is off, you cannot
dial out or receive incoming calls us­ing your ET-905. For this reason, the
ET-905 should not be y our on ly te le­phone. To be safe, you s hould also
have a phone that draws its power
from the telephone line (not a c ord­less phone) so you can still make and
receive calls if there is a n AC p ower
failure.

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FCC STA TEMENT

This telephone complies with part 68

FCC Rules

of
quest, provide the FCC Registration
Number and the REN to your phon e
company. These numbers are on the
label on the phone base’s back.

You must no t c onnect your phone to
any of the following:

• Coin-operate d syste ms

• Party-line systems

• Most electronic key phone sys­tems

Note:

Your telephone operates on
standard radio frequencies, as allo­cated by the FCC. Even though the
access protection code prevent s un­authorized use of your phone l ine, it
is possible for other radio units oper­ating on similar frequencies within a
certain area to unintentionally inter­cept your conversations and/or
cause interference. This lack of pri­vacy can occur with any cordless
phone.

. You must, upon re-

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CONTENTS

Installatio n

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

Setup on a De sktop.....................................................................................6

Mounting Directly on a Wall.................................................... .......... ....... ....7

Preparation .......................................................................................................8

Charging the Handset’s Battery...................................................................8

Setting the Pulse/Tone Switch.....................................................................9

Setting the Ringer’s Sound Level ................................................................9

Operation........................................................................................................ 10

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

Using Redial ............ ..................................................................................10

Using Flash........... .....................................................................................10

Using Privacy............................................................................................. 11

Using Tone Services on a Pulse Line........................................................ 11

Using Direct Dialing...................................................................................11

Memory Operatio n....... ..............................................................................12

Using Page................................................................................................13

Troubleshootin

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Storing a Number In M emory..............................................................12

Storing a Pau se in Memory.................................................................13

Dialing a Stored Number..................................................................... 13

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False Ringing......................................................................................14

Noise Interference in Your Conversation.............................................14

Telephone is Dead, or No Dial Tone. . ..................................................14

Can Receive But Not Make Calls........................................................14

Phone Still D o es N ot Wo rk......... .... .............. .. . .... . .. .... . .. .... . .. ... .. .. ... .. ...14

Alert Tones ............ ..............................................................................15

Maintenance ....................................................................................................16

Replacing the Handset Battery..................................................................17

The FCC Wants You to Know....................................................................18

Lightning....................................................................................................19

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INSTALLATION

SELECTING A
LOCATION

You can place the base on a desk,
shelf, or table, or mount it directly o n
the wall. The base’s location affe cts
the phone’s range. If you have a
choice of several locations, try each
to see which one provides the best
performance.

Select a location that is:

• Near an AC outlet

• Near a telephone line jack

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

• Away from wireless intercoms,
alarms, and room monitors

If the phone line jack is not a modular
jack, you must update the wiring. You
can convert the wiring yourself, using
jacks and adapters available at your
local Radio Shack store. Or, you can
let the phone company update the
wiring for you.

Notes:

• The phone company charges for
the installation of t he necessary
jacks.

SETUP ON A DESKTOP

1. Insert the supplied AC adapter ’s
barrel plug into the
on the bottom of the base and
route the wire through the slot
on the back of the base.

(illus)

2. Plug one end of the supplied
modular cord into the
on the bottom of the base and
route the wire through the slot
on the back of the base.

(illus)

3. Plug the adapter into a standard
AC outlet.

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

DC 9V

LINE

jack

jack

• The USOC number of the nec­essary baseboard jack to be
installed is RJ11C.

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