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TAD PREPARATION
SETTING THE CPC
SWITCH
CPC
(Calling Party Control) on the
back of the base is set to
MAX
at the
factory
.
If your TAD often records tele-
phone company messages, dial tones,
and so on, set
CPC
to
MIN
.
Note
:
Call waiting, a service offered by
most telephone companies, uses sig-
nals identical to CPC signals. If you
have this service, you should leave
CPC
set to
MAX
. Otherwise, if the an-
swering machine receives a second
call while the first caller is leaving a
message, the answering machine
might hang up during the first caller’s
message.
RECORDING AN
OUTGOING
ANNOUNCEMENT
Before you can use the TAD, you must
record the outgoing announcement
that the caller hears when the TAD an-
swers a call. You can record the outgo-
ing announcement from either the
base or the handset, and your an-
nouncement can be up to 21 seconds
long.
You can also set the TAD so it plays an
announcement but does not record a
message. See “Setting the TAD to the
Announce Only Mode” on Page 26.
Important: To help protect your home
or office from theft, we recommend you
do not tell callers that you are away. In-
stead, say that you cannot come to the
phone.
Notes:
• When you record an outgoing
announcement, you should ask
for the caller’s name, phone num-
ber, and a message.
• When you set the TAD to the
announce only mode, we recom-
mend you make it clear in the
announcement that the caller can-
not leave a message.
• When you record an outgoing
announcement, the TAD records a
backup copy of it on the incoming
message tape. When power is
restored after a power failure, the
TAD automatically retrieves the
outgoing announcement from the
message tape and re-records it
into digital memory.
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