TAD-412 (430-0399) Remote Operation Faxback Doc. # 6150 You can control your answering machine from any touch-tone telephone without any additional equipment. You can also control it from a rotary- dial phone with a pocket tone dialer (available at Radio Shack). You must use a security code to operate the answering machine when you are away from your home or office. This prevents unauthorized persons from controlling your answering machine. See "Setting the Security Code." If the code is correct, your answering machine accepts your remote commands. If it is not correct, your answering machine continues its normal answering functions, but does not respond to remote commands. NOTE: The remote control might not work if you use a telephone that sounds a short touch-tone or if you use a dialer that does not emit a steady tone signal. If you have trouble, try calling from another phone or using another pocket-tone dialer. SETTING THE SECURITY CODE The default code that activates your answering machine by remote control (when you have not entered your personal security code), is 11. For your peace of mind, however, we recommend that you select your own 2-digit security code, by following these steps. 1. Turn the VOLUME/Power control to OFF. The power indicator goes off. 2. Press and hold [STOP]. While holding [STOP], turn the answering machine on. The power indicator lights and a long tone sounds. 3. Within seven seconds after the tone, enter a two-digit code from numbers assigned to your answering-machine controls as follows: [REWIND]=1 [FAST-F]=2 [STOP]=3 [MEMO]=4 [PLAY]=5 [ANSWER]=6 The two digits chosen from these six controls are entered by the answering machine for your security code. (You can dial these numbers on a telephone away from your home or office, and the answering machine will respond to the touch tones generated by the telephone.) NOTE: If you do not enter the code within seven seconds of the long tone sound, you hear eight short beeps to indicate an error. If you hear these beeps, start over from Step 1. For example, to enter 15 as the security code: a. Within the seven-second interval after the long tone sounds, press [REWIND]. A short tone sounds. b. Then, press [PLAY] immediately. Once you press the second digit of the security code, another long tone sounds to indicate that you have successfully completed the code. CHANGING YOUR SECURITY CODE You can change the code by repeating the three-step procedure immediately below "Setting the Security Code." USING THE REMOTE CONTROL When you dial numbers on a telephone away from your home or office, your answering machine responds to your security-code numbers. It also responds to the following remote-control commands: [*] Activates remote [1] Activates rewind [2] Activates play 1. Dial your phone number. If the ANSWER switch is set at TOL S, and no new messages have been recorded since the last time you called, the answering machine waits four or five rings before it answers. Then the outgoing message plays. If the ANSWER switch is set at TOL S and it has received new messages, the answering machine answers on the first or second ring, and the outgoing announcement plays. 2. While the outgoing-announcement is playing, press and hold [*] for about 2 seconds. The outgoing-announcement pauses. 3. Enter your 2-digit security code within 7 seconds after the announcement pauses. If you enter an incorrect security code, the answering machine continues to play the outgoing announcement. Press [*] again and enter the correct code. If the code is correct and the answering machine has received a new message, the incoming-message tape automatically rewinds to the beginning of the new message (or block of messages). Then the messages automatically play back. After playing the messages, your answering machine stops and sounds three short beeps. It waits 7 seconds for the next remote command. Press [1] or [2] if you want to review messages, (see "Reviewing Messages".) If you want to finish the remote control operation, hang up your telephone. The answering machine automatically returns to the answer mode. If your answering machine does not receive any commands, after 7 seconds it hangs up. When you hang up, it also saves the messages and returns to the answer mode. Reviewing Messages 1. Press [1] for rewind. The incoming-message tape rewinds to the beginning of the most recently recorded message group. While messages are rewinding, you hear intermittent beeps. At the beginning of the new message group you hear three short beeps. If you want to replay previously recorded messages, press [1] again. The messages rewind to the beginning of the tape, you will hear intermittent beeps until the tape reaches the beginning of the tape. Then all beeps stop sounding. 2. Press [2] for play. The messages play. At the end of the message group you hear three short beeps. To listen to the second message group, press [2] again. After the security code is entered and the answering machine is playing the messages, if you hear three short beeps, you have reached the end of a message group. There is still space on the tape to record more new messages. * If you hang up the telephone before the incoming messages have finished playing, the messages play to the end. Then your answering machine returns to the answer mode. None of the messages are lost. * If you do not need to save your messages, press [1] for rewind. The answering machine rewinds the tape to the beginning of the new message group. Do not press [2] for play. This way the new messages will record over (and erase) the old messages. * When you press[1] for rewind, if you hear eight short beeps, you have reached the beginning of the tape. IT cannot rewind further. It is in position, however, to play back or to answer and record messages. * If your answering machine has received no new messages, it sounds three short beeps and waits 7 seconds for the next remote command. USING A POCKET TONE DIALER The tones from a tone dialer must pass through the microphone of the remote telephone to get to your answering machine. Some of these microphones are old and do not reproduce the tones accurately, causing erratic operation. The tips below might help you overcome this problem. * Hold the handset in a vertical position. * Be sure the dialer's speaker is centered over the mouthpiece. If you continue to have problems, gently tap the handset on a hard surface. This might make an older phone work better. REMOTE TURN ON You can put your answering machine in the answer mode while you are away from your home or office, provided: a. The POWER control is turned on. b. The answering machine is in the stop mode. c. Both cassettes are installed. 1. Call your telephone number and let it ring for about 75 seconds. Your answering machine answers your call. 2. When it begins playing the outgoing message, hang up the phone. Your answering machine rewinds the outgoing announcement and enters the answer mode, and is ready to receive calls. If you wish, you can leave a memo before hanging up the phone. You might want to state the time you turned on the answer function. (RLR/ir-06/21/96)