Radio Shack TAD-285 owner manual Fm Page 20 Monday, August 16, 1999 754 AM

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Problem	Cause	Solution
Recordings sound	You were too close to	Rerecord the message.
distorted.	the microphone or you	Speak clearly into the
	spoke too loudly when	microphone at a normal vol-
	you recorded the outgo-	ume from about 12 inches
	ing message.	away.
	The tape head is dirty.	Clean the head using a
		tape head-cleaning kit
		(see “Cleaning the Tape-
		Handling Parts” on
		Page 23).
	The tape is worn out.	Unplug the adapter from the
		AC outlet, replace the tape,
		then plug the adapter back
		into the AC outlet.
Remote control func-	The remote operation	Enter the correct code.
tions do not work.	security code was not
	entered correctly.
	You are using a pulse	Use a touch-tone phone or
	dialing phone.	pocket tone dialer.
	The tone output from	Press and hold the buttons
	the phone or tone dialer	for at least 1/2 second or try
	is not long enough.	using another phone or
		dialer.
	The telephone line is	Enter the remote operation
	noisy.	security code again to
		retrieve the messages.
	Seven seconds of	Call the answering system
	silence have passed so	and try again.
	the answering system
	hangs up.

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