Radio Shack 17-6003 User manual

Cat. No. 17-6003/33
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before usin
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this pa
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EZ Numeric Pager
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INTRODUCTION
Your EZ Numeric Pager lets you keep in touch with
the office and with family and friends just about any-
where. You can set the pager to alert you with either a
beep or a gentle vibration. Its other features include:
15-Message Memory — lets you store up to 15 mes-
sages (or a maximum of 160 characters).
Long Period Alert —lets you set the pager to beep
or vibrate every 2 minutes, up to 12 hours, to remind
you of unread pages.
Low Battery Message and Alert — lets you know
when the battery is low.
Note: You need one AA battery (not supplied) to pow-
er your pager.
©1996 Tandy Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.
RadioShack is a trademark used by Tandy Corporation.
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GETTING STARTED
SUBSCRIBING TO SERVICE
You must subscribe to paging service through Mobile-
Comm before you can start receiving messages.
To activate your pager, call MobileComm or its asso-
ciated carrier at the telephone number listed in the ac-
tivation instructions provided with your pager’s
activation packet.
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INSTALLING A BATTERY
Your pager requires one AA battery for power. For the
best performance, we recommend an alkaline battery
such as RadioShack Cat. No. 23-557.
Caution: Always use a fresh battery of the required
size and type.
1. Slide the battery cover
in the direction of the
arrow to remove it.
2. Place a battery in the
compartment accord-
ing to the polarity sym-
bols (+ and –) marked
inside.
3. Replace the cover.
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When battery power becomes low, an alert tone con-
tinuously sounds and Lo –Cell and flash on the
display. To stop the alert, press the power switch on
the side of the pager. stops flashing and Lo –
Cell disappears.
Depending on your pager’s settings and how many
messages you receive, you have from 12–36 hours of
battery power left when this alert first occurs. Replace
the battery as soon as possible.
Cautions:
• Removing the battery deletes all messages and
settings stored in the pager’s memory.
• Always dispose of old batteries promptly and
properly. Do not burn or bury them.
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PAGER QUICK GUIDE
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Belt Clip
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INDICATORS
Your pager displays the following symbols.
Audible alert
Long period alert
Message continuation
Duplicate message
Message marked for deletion
Low battery
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OPERATION
TURNING POWER ON/OFF AND
SELECTING THE ALERT
The power switch (BVl) on the side of your pager
slides to turn power on or off and set the alert type
(beep or vibrate).
To turn on the pager and have it
vibrate when you re-
ceive a page, set the switch to Vso the pager vibrates
and displays [On ](the silent standby display).
To turn on the pager and have it
beep when you re-
ceive a page, set the switch to Bso the pager beeps
and displays and ----- On ----- (the audible standby
display).
To turn off the pager, set the switch to lso the display
goes blank.
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Notes:
• Each time you turn the pager on, the display
lights for about 15 seconds and all display char-
acters appear briefly.
• When you set the switch from B(beep) to V
(vibrate), disappears from the display.
• To conserve battery power, turn off the pager
when you are not using it.
• The pager does not receive messages while the
power switch is set to l(off).
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Using Long Period Alert (LPA)
Your pager is preset to alert for 8 seconds then stop,
each time you receive a new message (see “Receiv-
ing and Reading Messages” on Page 12). However,
you can set the pager to briefly alert every 2 minutes
(up to 12 hours) until you read all new messages.
To turn long period alert on or off, press and hold the
power switch until [LPA ]appears. When you re-
lease the switch, the pager beeps once and the long
period alert symbol ( ) appears or disappears.
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RECEIVING AND READING
MESSAGES
When the pager receives a message, it alerts (beeps
or vibrates) and displays the incoming message for 8
seconds, then returns to standby. To stop the alert
sooner, press and release the power switch.
To read all messages stored in memory, from newest
to oldest, repeatedly press the power switch. Each
time you press it, the pager displays a message fol-
lowed by the length of time (hours and minutes, such
as 01 hour 14) elapsed since that message was re-
ceived.
The standby display appears when you press the
power switch after reading the last message, or auto-
matically after about 15 seconds if you do not press
the power switch.
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Notes:
• The letter (A, B, C, or D) displayed with each
message is part of a paging-address feature not
supported by your carrier.
• If a message is longer than 12 digits (if
appears), the rest of that message appears
before the elapsed message time when you
press the power switch.
• The elapsed time of any message that has been
stored in memory for 24 hours or more appears
as -- hour --.
• If no messages are stored in memory, 0(zero)
appears when you press the power switch.
• You can set the pager to briefly alert every 2 min-
utes (up to 12 hours) until you read all new mes-
sages. See “Using Long Period Alert (LPA)” on
Page 11.
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Duplicate Messages
If your pager receives a message that is the same as
one already stored in memory (read or unread), ap-
pears when the pager displays the duplicate mes-
sage.
After you read a duplicate message, the pager saves
all duplicate messages in one record, showing the
most recent elapsed message time.
Unreadable Messages
If yourpager receives a message that is partially or to-
tally unreadable (due to disruption of the paging signal
or low signal strength, for example), it displays the un-
readable parts as unusual display characters. This is
not a malfunction.
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MEMORY CAPACITY
Your pager can receive messages of up to 20 charac-
ters in length, and store up to 15 messages (or a max-
imum of 160 characters) in its memory. If the pager’s
memory is full when it receives a new message, the
new message replaces the oldest message in memo-
ry.
Hint: To prevent the pager from automatically replac-
ing messages you want to keep, be sure to promptly
delete each unwanted message after you read it (see
“Deleting a Message” on Page 16) to save memory
space.
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DELETING A MESSAGE
Follow these steps to delete any message after you
read it.
Note: You cannot delete a message immediately after
it is received (while the pager automatically displays
the message).
1. Repeatedly press the power switch until you see
the message you want to delete.
2. Press and hold the power switch for a few sec-
onds until dELETE and appear on the display.
When you release the power switch, the mes-
sage and flash.
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3. Within about 3 seconds, press and release the
power switch to delete the selected message.
The pager beeps and the next message (or the
standby display) appears.
Note: If you are unable to press the power switch
before the message stops flashing and disap-
pears, try again.
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PAGER IDEAS
Include your pager number in your answering ma-
chine or voice mail messages. This way, you can re-
ceive important messages immediately.
Leave your pager number at your children’s school
and with the babysitter so you can always be reached
in an emergency.
Establish
code messages with your family or friends.
For example, your children can include the code 3333
to tell you they are home from school. Your spouse
can send 07734 to say hello! (Read it upside-down.)
If you have a cellular phone, give your pager number
instead of your cellular number. 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
To enjoy your pager for a long time:
• Keep the pager dry. If it gets wet, wipe it dry.
• Use and store the pager only in normal tempera-
ture environments.
• Handle the pager gently and carefully.
• Keep the pager away from dust and dirt.
• Wipe the pager with a damp cloth occasionally.
FCC INFORMATION
Your pager might cause TV or radio interference even
when it is operating properly. To determine whether
your pager is causing the interference, turn it off. If the
interference goes away, your pager is causing the in-
terference. Try to eliminate the interference by moving
the pager away from the receiver.
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RadioShack
A Division of Tandy Corporation
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
7/96 Printed in the USA
If
y
ou cannot eliminate the interference, the FCC re-
q
uires that
y
ou stop usin
g
y
our pa
g
er.
Modif
y
in
g
or tamperin
g
with
y
our pa
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er’s internal com-
ponents can cause a malfunction and void
y
our FCC
authorization to operate it.
If your pager is not perform-
ing as it should
, contact
y
our local RadioShack store
for assistance or call MobileComm at:
1-800-944-4000
This device complies with Part 15 of
FCC Rules
. Op-
eration is sub
j
ect to the followin
g
two conditions:
(
1
)
this device ma
y
not cause an
y
harmful interference,
and
(
2
)
this device must accept interference received,
includin
g
interference that ma
y
cause undesired oper-
ation.
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