Radio Shack 811081530A - Manual (Page 4)

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USING THE RADIO
You can cause a paging tone to
sound on all radios tuned to the same
channel (and quiet code, if used). To
send a page, hold down
CALL for up
to 5 seconds. TX appears.
When you press CALL , the radio
sends a signal that automatically
turns up the volume on another Cat.
No. 21-1810 Two-Way Family Radio
(or other radio that has this feature).
This “Intelligent Call Ringer” allows
the party on the other end to hear the
call tone, even if their radio’s volume
is set to its lowest setting.
To turn the radio on or off,
hold down
POWER for
about 1 second.
The backlight turns on for 10 seconds whenever
you press
MODE , CALL , or POWER , or rotate
CHANNEL/QUIET/VOLUME .
To attach the belt clip, slide the belt clip onto the
tab on the back of the radio.
To talk, hold down PTT (push to
talk) and speak into the micro-
phone.
TX appears. When you
finish speaking, release PTT. TX
disappears.
Repeatedly press MODE to
switch between channel, quiet,
volume and intelligent call
ringer modes. See “Using the
Quiet Feature” on Page 6.
You can lock the radio’s volume
at any time by holding down
MODE for 2 seconds.
appears, and you cannot use
CHANNEL/QUIET/VOLUME to
adjust the volume. Hold down
MODE again for 2 seconds to
unlock the volume. disap-
pears.
Microphone
To hear everything on a channel,
including weak transmissions and
radios set to a different quiet code,
hold down
MON (monitor). RX
appears. Release MON to turn
auto-squelch back on.
Display
Rotate to adjust the voice volume, channel,
quiet code, and ringer volume.
As you use the radio, the battery
icon’s elements on the display dis-
appear to show how much power
remains. When only one element
remains, recharge the battery pack
or replace the batteries.
For more convenient listening,
connect an optional speaker/
microphone with a
3 / 32 -inch
mini plug and a 1 / 8 -inch plug to
the EAR/MIC jacks (or an ear-
phone with a 1 / 8 -inch plug to
the EAR jack).
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