Advanced Operation
Off-hook Call Announce
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Off-hook Call Announce
Off-hook Call Announce (OCA) enables you to complete a call to a busy digital
telephone. Your telephone must be programmed to either announce automatically or to
announce after you press a button on your dial pad. The destination telephone must be
programmed to accept an OCA. The announcement may be delivered over the handset
or the speaker.
Handset OCA Announce can operate on any digital telephone. Speaker OCA requires
the addition of a special circuit board inside the DKT speakerphone.
To make an OCA call
Manual – Dial an extension. When you hear busy tone, press 5 and, after one long
tone, you can talk through the speaker of the destination telephone. The person you
are calling has answering options described below.
Automatic – If your telephone and the extension you are calling have been
programmed for Automatic OCA, you can talk through the speaker of the
destination telephone without hearing the busy tone and without dialing 5.
To answer a Handset OCA call
While you have a call in progress, you hear one tone in your handset to indicate that a
second station is calling.
Press Mic to toggle between the new and original callers.
You talk to the new caller for as long as you hold down Mic. When you release the
button, you return to the original caller. In both cases, neither caller can hear the
other. Y our LCD ind icates which station or CO line you are connected to.
To answer a Speaker OCA call
Note This feature is not available on the IPT2010-SD.
1. While you have a handset call in progress and you hear one tone, this indicates that
a second station is calling. The second caller connects to the speaker in your
telephone. The Spkr LED flashes and the Mic LED lights. You will be speaking to
the first caller through your handset and the second caller through the microphone.
2. To turn off your microphone speaker to the second party, you can press Mic or
Microphn Cut-off; the Mic LED turns Off. You will no longer be talking to the
second caller, although he/she can still speak through your speaker.
3. Press Mic or Microphn Cut-off again to reconnect to the second caller. You can
toggle as often as you choose. If you do not want the first caller to hear your
conversation with the second caller, cover the mouthpiece of your handset.