Radio Shack PG 202 User Manual

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Cat. No.

17-7021

OWNER’S MANUAL

PRO ENCORE!

PG 202 Numeric Pager

Please read bef ore using this pager.

TM

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INTRODUCTION

Your Radio Shack Pro Encore PG 202 Numeric Pager
lets you keep in touch with family and friends every­where you go (in the PageMart coverage area you
choose) and is easy to operate. It can store up to 16
20-digit mess ages in mem ory, and y ou can prot ect im­portant messages so you do not accidentally erase
them.

Be sure you thoroughly read these instructions to en­sure that you fully understand how to use your pager.

©

1995 Tandy Corporation.

PRO ENCORE! is a trademark of Motorola, Inc.

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All Rights Reserved.

Radio Shack is a registered trademark

used by Tandy Corporation.

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INSTALLING THE BATTERY

Your pager requi res one AAA battery. For the best per ­formance, we recommend an alkaline battery, such as
Radio Shack Cat. No. 23-555.

1. Slide the battery compartment lock up and slide
the battery door in the direction of the arrow. The
pager’s door hing es open. If you accident ally lift it
so far that it pops off of the pager, simply snap it
back into place.

2. Insert the battery’s positive end first, as indicated
by the polarity symbol (+) marked outside the
compartment.

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3. Close the battery door and slide the battery com­partment lock down t o secure it.

Notes:

• To conserve battery power, turn the pager off
when you are not using it.

• The battery should provide about 850 to 950
hours of continuous use.

A low battery alert sounds and the pager displays

when the battery’s power is low. When this oc-

CELL

curs, replac e the bat tery.
Notes:

• To save battery power, all pager alerts change to
2 seconds in length when battery power is low.

• When you replace the batte ry, the pager keeps al l
messages and the time and date.

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OPERATION

A LOOK AT YOUR PAGER

Display

— turns the pager on/off, lets you read messages

and select the dis played function.

— press once to light the screen; press again to re-

set to the standby screen.

— scrolls through menus.

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TURNING ON THE PAGER

Press to turn on your pager. Your pager alerts with
either a tone or vibration.

TURNING OFF THE PAGER

Repeatedly press until the pager displays

. Press to turn off the pager. Previously re-

OFF?

ceived messages are not erased. However if you are
paged while the pager is off, you do not receive the
page.

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PAgEr

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SELECTING AUDIBLE/SILENT
ALERT

From the date/time display, press until the pager
displays either

• If the pager displays
an alert tone. Press to make your pager
vibrate when it receives a page.

• If the pager displays
Press to make your pager sound an alert tone
when it receives a page.

Set your pager to the silent mode when you are in
meetings, church, or the theater, to avoid disturbing
others with the tone. The silent feature is also handy if
you are at a concert or in any noi sy environment where
it might be diffi cult to hear the tone.

SILENT?

or

AUdIO?

SILENT?

AUdIO?

.

, it is set to sound

, it is set to vibrate.

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ALERT TONES

Your pager has five differe nt ale rt tones. If you select­ed the audible alert, follow these steps to select an
alert tone.

1. Repeatedly press until the pager displays

SET ALErT?

2. Press . The pager sounds the currently
selected alert tone.

3. Repeatedly press until the pager sounds the
alert tone you want.

4. Press .

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SETTING THE TIME

You must set the time so the pager can time stamp
your messages.

1. Repeatedly press until the pager displays

SET TIME?

2. Press . The hour digits flas h. Wit hin 8 seconds,
repeatedly pr ess to set the hour .

3. Press . The first minute digit flashes. Within 8
seconds, repeatedly press to set the first
minute digit.

4. Press . The second minute digit flashes. Within
8 seconds, repeatedly press to set the sec­ond minute digit.

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5. Press . A or P flashes in the display. Within 8
seconds, press to set the time of day to AM
or PM.

6. Press twice. The pager displays the time and
date.

SETTING THE DATE

1. Repeatedly press until the pager displays

SET dATE?

2. Press . The month flashes. Within 8 seconds,
repeatedly pr ess to set the month.

3. Press . The day flashes. Within 8 seconds,
repeatedly press to set the day.

4. Press twice. The pager displays the time and
date.

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SETTING THE ALARM

1. Repeatedly press until the pager displays

SET ALArM?

2. Press .
8 seconds, press to turn the alarm on or off.

3. Press . The hour digits flas h. Wit hin 8 seconds,
repeatedly pr ess to set the hour .

4. Press . The first minute digit flashes. Within 8
seconds, repeatedly press to set the first
minute digit.

5. Press . The second minute digit flashes. Within
8 seconds, repeatedly press to set the sec­ond minute digit.

ON

or

.

flashes in the display . Within

OFF

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6. Press . A or P flashes in the display. Within 8
seconds, press to set the time of day to AM
or PM.

7. Press twice. The time and date appear on the
display.

The pager displays when you turn on the alarm.
The pager gives a 20-second alert and displays

at the set alarm time. The alarm sounds even

ALARM

if the pager is off. Press any button to stop the alert.

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RECEIVING P AGES AND READING
MESSAGES

When the pager receives a page, it alerts for 8 sec­onds. Press any button to stop the alert. The number
of unread messages appears on the display.

Press to display yo ur message. If the pager displays

, there is more information on the next screen. The
pager automatically displays the next screen after 1
minute, or you can pres s to advance sooner.

After you view your message, the pager displays the
time stamp to s how the time yo u received t he message
and the message position number (the order in which
t was rec e iv ed ) .

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Press to scroll through other messages. After you
read all the messages, the time and date appear on
the display.

Note: If you do not read a message, the pager alerts
every 2 minutes and displays the number of unread
messages (for example,

1 PAGE

).

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PROTECTING/UNPROTECTING
MESSAGES

You can protect messages so they are not removed
when you receive more messages than the available
memory can store.

To protect a message, press while the pager dis­plays the message you want to prote ct. The page r dis­plays

PrOTECT?

The pager displays .
To unprotect a message, press while the pager

displays t he message you want to unprotect. The pag­er displays
message.

. Press to protect the message.

UNPrOTECT?

. Press to unprotect the

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ERASING MESSAGES

There are two ways to erase messages: erase all and
erase one.

To erase all messages, repeatedly press until the
pager displays
locked messages are erased from memory, and all
other messages are moved to the first message slots.

To erase one message, select the message, then
press twice. The pager displays

to erase the message.

Note

: You cannot erase a message that you have not

read or that is protec ted.

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ErASE ALL?

. Press . All read, un-

dELETE?

. Press

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SPECIAL MESSAGES

The pager has the following special messages.

OVERFLOW

messages received is greate r than the availab le mem­ory. When this occurs, any new message you receive

bumps

DUPLICATE —

received more than once. The new message remains
with the latest time stamp an d the older m essage is d e­leted.

TONE ONLY

out numeric data.

—appears when the number of unread

the oldest message out of memory.

appears when the same message is

—appears when a page is r eceiv ed wit h-

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PAGER IDEAS

Give your pager number to friends and family. When
they call your pager number, they can use their
phone’s touch-tone keypad to enter the number where
you can reach them. Your pager displays this number
when you receiv e th e page. Yo u are i n to uch wherev er
you go in your PageMart coverage area.

• Include your pager number on your telephone
answering machine greeting. This way you can
immediately re ceive important messages.

• Leave your pager number at your children’s
school and with the babysitter so you can always
be reached in an emergency.

• Establish
friends. For example, your children can page you
with the code 3333 to tel l you they got home from
school. Your spous e can send 07734 to say hell o!
(Read it upside-down.)

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code

messages with your family and

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• If you have a cellular phone, give out your pager
number instead of your cellular number. Then
you can decide who to call back on your cellular
phone, without paying for incoming cellular calls.
This can drastically reduce your monthly cellular
bill.

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CARE AND MAINTENANCE

• Keep the pager dry. If it gets wet, wipe it dry
immediately. Liquids can contain minerals that
corrode the electronic circuits.

• Use and store the pager only in normal tempera­ture environments. Temperature extremes can
shorten the life of electronic devices and distort or
melt plasti c parts.

• Handle the pager gently and caref ully. Dropping it
can damage circuit boards and cases and can
cause the pager to work improperly.

• Keep the pager away from dust and dirt, which
can cause premature wear of parts.

• Wipe the pager with a damp cloth occasionally to
keep it looking new. Do not use harsh chemicals,
cleaning solvents, or strong detergents to clean
the pager.

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FCC INFORMATION

This pager might cause TV/radio interference even
when it is operating properly. To determine whether
your pager is causing the i nterference, turn it off. If t he
interference goes away, your pager is causing the in­terference. Try to eliminate the in terference by moving
your pager away from the receiver or by contacting
your local Radio Shack store for help. If you cannot
eliminate the interference, the FCC requires that you
stop using your pager .

Modifying or tam peri ng with yo ur pager ’s internal com­ponents can cause a malfunction and might invalida te
the warranty and vo id your FCC authorization to oper­ate it. If your pager is not performing as it shoul d, con­tact your local Radio Shack store or PageMart at 1­800-864-HELP.

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This device complies wit h Part 15 of

FCC Rules

. Oper-

ation is subject t o the following conditi ons:
(1) This device may not cause any harmful interfer-

ence, and

(2) This de vice mu st accep t in terf ere nce r eceived , i n-

cluding int erference that may cause und esired op­eration.

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RADIO SHACK LIMITED WARRANTY

This product is warranted against defects fo r 90 days from date of
purchase from Radio Shack compan
Radio Shack franchisees and dealers. Within this period, we will
repair it without char

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does it cover a product sub
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