Radio Shack 4-Line System Speakerphone with Caller ID and Headset Jack - Manual (Page 16)

16 Telephone Operation
Notes:
• Be sure to cancel auto redial if you leave
the area of your telephone. Otherwise,
your phone will hang up 30 seconds
after the called person answers, then
will redial again 30 seconds later, up to
ten times. This could be annoying to the
called person and, if you are calling a
long-distance number, you are charged
for each call.
• You can also use auto redial to automat-
ically redial a number from a Caller ID
record up to ten times. Follow the steps
under “Using Caller/Dial” on Page 24 to
dial the desired Caller ID record. When
the phone number cannot be success-
fully dialed the first time, press
PAUSE/
REDIAL to redial it.
USING FLASH
Many special telephone services require a
switchhook signal. When you press
FLASH ,
the phone produces the electronic equivalent
of a switchhook signal.
For example, if you subscribe to Call Waiting
(a special telephone company service), you
can press
FLASH to put your current call on
hold and take another incoming call. Then
you can repeatedly press
FLASH to alternate
between the two calls.
Notes:
• If you do not have a special telephone
service that uses FLASH , pressing
FLASH might disconnect the current call.
• Do not press FLASH to hang up the
speakerphone.
• The phone's redial memory stores only
digits you entered after you press
FLASH .
USING HOLD
You can hang up the handset or use one of
the other phone lines without disconnecting
the current call, by putting a call on hold.
When you put a call on hold, line lock is can-
celled so you can put a call on hold at one
station and pick up the call on another sta-
tion.
To place a call on hold, press HOLD . To pick
up a line that is on hold, simply press that
line's button.
You can alternate between two lines by
pressing
HOLD to put your current line on
hold, then pressing the button for the other
line you want to pick up.
Note: If you press the other line's button
without first pressing
HOLD , the first call is
disconnected.
USING PRIVACY
If you do not want the person on the other
end of the phone line to hear your conversa-
tion with someone else at your location,
press
PRIVACY . The PRIVACY indicator
lights and the microphone turns off, but you
can still hear the calling party.
Press PRIVACY again to resume your conver-
sation.
USING THE TIMER
The telephone's timer displays elapsed time
in minutes and seconds, up to 59 minutes
and 59 seconds. This helps you track how
long each call lasts.
To start the timer, press TIMER/BACKWARD .
00:00 appears, then the timer starts count-
ing.