Radio Shack 43-3814 Owner's Manual - Introduction

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Introduction

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Introduction

Thank you for purchasing our 900 MHz 

Cordless Telephone. It provides excellent 

clarity and range and integrates Caller ID, 

Call Waiting ID, and a digital answering 

system into one space-saving device. The 

900 MHz band provides less interference, 

clearer sound, and greater range than 46/49 

MHz cordless telephones.

The digital answering system provides clear 

reliable messaging with call screening, day/

time stamp, call counter, remote access and 

instant skip or replay messaging.

The Caller ID records each caller’s name (if 

available in your area), telephone number, 

and the date and time of the call, as provided 

by your local phone company to Caller ID 

service subscribers.

IMPORTANT

Cordless phones such as this one require 

AC power to operate. When the AC power is 

off, you cannot dial out or receive incoming 

calls using your phone. To be safe, you 

should also have a phone that does not need 

AC power to operate (not a cordless phone) 

so you can still make and receive calls if 

there is an AC power failure.

When AC power is lost, the phone loses the 

security access-protection code connection 

between the base and the handset. When 

power is restored, put the handset on the 

base briefly to restore this connection.

IMPORTANT CALLER ID

INFORMATION

To use Caller ID and Call Waiting, you must 

be in an area where those services are 

available and you must subscribe to those 

services through your local phone company. 

Where Caller ID is offered, one or more 

options are generally available:

• caller’s number only

• caller’s name only

• caller’s name and number

If you subscribe to Call Waiting ID and Caller 

ID, the system can show you the incoming 

caller information, even when you are 

already talking on the phone.

READ THIS BEFORE 

INSTALLATION

We have designed your phone to conform to 

federal regulations and you can connect it to 

most phone lines. However, each device that 

you connect to the telephone line draws 

power from the line. We refer to this power 

draw as the phone’s ringer equivalence 

number, or REN. The REN is on the bottom 

of your phone.

If you use more than one phone or other 

device on the line, add up all the RENs. If the 

total is more than five (three in rural areas), 

your phones might not ring. If ringer 

operation is impaired, remove one of the 

devices from the line.

The digital answering system stores up to 16 

minutes of messages on a computer chip 

and records each message’s day and time. 

This gives you advanced capabilities over 

tape-based answering machines:

• You can delete individual messages and 

save the rest.

• There are no tapes to bother with and no 

tape mechanisms to wear out.