Radio Shack EC-291, Owner'S Manual

Page 1: ...Cat No 65 743 OWNER S MANUAL Please read before using this equipment EC 291 24K Electronic Organizer with Web Site Directory...

Page 2: ...one compact easy to use package Its features include 24K Memory gives you ample space for storing phone numbers and schedules Your organizer has space for up to 480 phone directory records based on a...

Page 3: ...ime shows you the current time in your local time zone and in 31 other cities around the world Metric Converter lets you perform conversions to and from metric mea surements Calendar shows weekly cale...

Page 4: ...ized access to your information 10 Digit Calculator does standard arithmetic and memory calculations Currency Converter makes it easy to convert between U S dollars and up to four foreign currencies A...

Page 5: ...aims by third parties that might arise through use of this databank or for damages incurred as a result of infor mation loss due to malfunctions re pairs battery replacement or misuse You should maint...

Page 6: ...Off 10 Turning the Key Tone On and Off 11 Clock Calendar 13 Setting Viewing the Home Date and Time 13 Viewing World Times 20 Using the Calendar 20 Web Site Phone Lists 22 Storing Web Site Records 22 S...

Page 7: ...ord 39 Deleting a Web Site Phone List or Memo To Do Record 41 Daily Alarm 42 Setting the Daily Alarm Time 43 Turning the Daily Alarm On and Off 45 Schedule Alarms 47 Entering a Schedule Alarm 48 Turni...

Page 8: ...61 Calculations 61 Standard Calculations 61 Square Calculations 62 Memory Calculations 63 Conversions 65 Metric Conversions 65 Currency Conversion 67 Care 70 Replacing the Batteries 72 Resetting the...

Page 9: ...E YOU BEGIN REMOVING THE INSULATION STRIPS Before you can use the organizer you must remove the two protective insula tion strips from inside the battery com partment To remove the slips gently pull t...

Page 10: ...TURNING THE ORGANIZER ON AND OFF Press ON OFF to turn on the organizer Press ON OFF again to turn it off To conserve battery power the orga nizer automatically turns off after about 6 minutes of non u...

Page 11: ...NING THE KEY TONE ON AND OFF You can set your organizer so a tone sounds each time you press a key With the organizer turned on press to turn the tone on or off A beep sounds appears when the key tone...

Page 12: ...12 Note You can only turn the key tone on or off when the display shows the current date and time...

Page 13: ...ING VIEWING THE HOME DATE AND TIME 1 Turn on the organizer then press PROG The seconds digits flash 2 Press SEARCH or until your city s name code appears If your city is not listed use a city in the s...

Page 14: ...14 Code City Name LON London RIO Rio de Janeiro CCS Caracas YYZ Toronto NYC New York CHI Chicago DEN Denver LAX Los Angeles ANC Anchorage...

Page 15: ...City Name HNL Honolulu WLG Wellington NOU Noumea SYD Sydney ADL Adelaide TYO Tokyo SIN Singapore HKG Hong Kong BKK Bangkok RGN Rangoon DAC Dhaka DEL Delhi KHI Karachi KBL Kabul DXB Dubai THR Tehran RU...

Page 16: ...f the year flashes 4 Use the number keys to enter the year month and date on the first line Then enter the current hour and minute on the second line Code City Name MOW Moscow CAI Cairo HEL Helsinki R...

Page 17: ...17 Note If you make a mistake press or to move backward or forward to the digit you want to change Then enter the correct digit 5 Press 12 24 to set the clock to the 12 or 24 hour format...

Page 18: ...18 In the 12 hour format AM or PM appears Press AM PM to choose AM or PM 6 To select daylight saving time press DST appears Press DST again to turn daylight saving time off t...

Page 19: ...If any information you enter is invalid for example you enter 15 for the hour the first hour digit flashes after you press ENTER Enter the correct digit then press ENTER again If you are in another m...

Page 20: ...world 1 Press CALEN W H TIME The date and time of the last selected city appears 2 Repeatedly press SEARCH or to select the city you want Note Press DST to see the daylight saving time in another U S...

Page 21: ...ent year and month and the calendar for one week at a time The leftmost date is Sun day and the current date flashes 2 To move forward or backward through the weeks repeatedly press or hold down or No...

Page 22: ...on is http www tandy com You probably have bookmarks on your home or office computer for the sites you frequently visit You can use your organizer to help you remember these addresses so you can acces...

Page 23: ...yed character Press to view the next 12 characters When appears on the left side of the record you can press to move back Notes Each character or digit uses 1 byte of memory The web site list uses an...

Page 24: ...tedly press to move to the character you want to change then type the correct character over the old one 1 Press WEB SITE PHONE LIST WEB NO DATA appears if there are no records stored WEB SEARCH appea...

Page 25: ...iefly appear Then NAME appears 3 Enter the name The web site list stores names alphabetically 4 Press ENTER WEB SITES appears 5 Enter the web site address URL 6 Press ENTER NOTE appears 7 If you like...

Page 26: ...site addresses to free additional space See Using Records on Page 37 to re call edit or delete a record STORING A PHONE LIST RECORD Your organizer has three phone direc tories TEL1 TEL2 and TEL3 Re pe...

Page 27: ...mory The directory uses an additional 9 bytes to store and sepa rate each phone list record The display shows 12 characters at a time When appears on the right side of the record there are more charac...

Page 28: ...ss If you make an incorrect entry repeatedly press to move to the character you want to change then type the correct character over the old one If you do not want to enter a com pany name address or f...

Page 29: ...times for TEL2 or four times for TEL3 The directory number and NO DATA appear if there are no phone records stored The directory number and SEARCH appear if there are already records stored 2 Press P...

Page 30: ...30 able briefly appear Then NAME appears 3 Enter the name Since the direc tory stores names alphabetically you might want to put last names first 4 Press ENTER COMPANY appears...

Page 31: ...e address 8 Press ENTER PHONE 1 appears 9 Enter the first telephone number 10 Press ENTER PHONE 2 appears 11 Enter the second telephone num ber 12 Press ENTER FAX PAGER appears 13 Enter the fax or pag...

Page 32: ...d down ENTER until WAIT appears Note If not enough space is available for the record you have entered FULL appears Delete phone records schedule alarms memo records or web site addresses to free addit...

Page 33: ...on lets you record notes to yourself while the To Do function lets you keep a list of things to do Each entry can be up to 96 charac ters ENTERING A MEMO FILE 1 Press MEMO TO DO NO MEMO appears if the...

Page 34: ...mory units avail able appear Then MEMO appears 3 Enter the memo Notes Press SPACE to enter a space Repeatedly press SYM to select a symbol To enter the sym bol press If you make an incorrect entry rep...

Page 35: ...call edit or delete a record ENTERING A TO DO FILE 1 Press MEMO TO DO twice NO TODO appears if there are no to do records stored TODO SEARCH appears if there are already to do records stored 2 Press P...

Page 36: ...y press SYM to select a symbol To enter the symbol press If you make an incorrect entry repeatedly press to move to the character you want to change then type the correct character over the old one 4...

Page 37: ...RECORD 1 Repeatedly press WEB SITE PHONE LIST or MEMO TO DO until the desired directory such as WEB SEARCH TEL 1 SEARCH MEMO SEARCH or TODO SEARCH appears 2 Press SEARCH or to view the first record Yo...

Page 38: ...here are no records stored in your organizer NO DATA appears If there is not a matching record NOT FOUND appears 3 Repeatedly press ENTER to view the other information in the record 4 To recall anothe...

Page 39: ...D 1 Recall the record you want to edit 2 Press EDIT A flashing cursor appears on the first character of the name 3 Press or to move the cursor to the character you want to edit To change a character s...

Page 40: ...a space in place of character To delete a character press DEL 4 When you finish editing the name press ENTER The next entry in the record appears on the first line of the display 5 Repeat Steps 3 4 t...

Page 41: ...NG A WEB SITE PHONE LIST OR MEMO TO DO RECORD 1 Recall the record you want to de lete 2 Press DEL DELETE Y N appears 3 If you are sure press Y The entire record is deleted Otherwise press N The record...

Page 42: ...alarm is on appears and a tone sounds at the set time for about 20 seconds even if the organizer is off To silence the alarm sooner press any key Note Because pressing any key turns off the alarm the...

Page 43: ...43 SETTING THE DAILY ALARM TIME 1 Press ALARM SCHED twice ALARM and the current alarm time appear 2 Press PROG You see ALARM and the first alarm digit flashes...

Page 44: ...ss or to move forward or backward to the digit that you want to change Then enter the correct digit 4 Press AM PM to set the alarm time to AM or PM if you are using the 12 hour time format 5 Press ENT...

Page 45: ...ME to return to the current date and time dis play TURNING THE DAILY ALARM ON AND OFF 1 Press ALARM SCHED twice ALARM and the current alarm time appear 2 Press to turn on the alarm appears Press again...

Page 46: ...46 Note Turning the daily alarm on or off does not affect schedule alarms...

Page 47: ...ssage of up to 96 charac ters At the set time the alarm sounds for 20 seconds and your stored message appears If the organizer is off at the set alarm time the organizer turns on sounds the alarm tone...

Page 48: ...organizer is locked at the schedule alarm time the alarm sounds but the alarm message does not appear To display the alarm message you must enter the password see The Pass word on Page 57 ENTERING A S...

Page 49: ...ct entry repeatedly press to move to the character you want to change then type the correct character over the old one 1 Press ALARM SCHED SCHEDULE appears if there are schedule alarms stored If there...

Page 50: ...ter Press to view the next 12 characters When appears on the left side of the record you can press to move back 2 Press PROG SPACE and the percentage of memory units avail able appear Then SCHEDULE an...

Page 51: ...he alarm time has been stored Notes To store a schedule alarm you must enter both the alarm time and a message If no or not enough storage space is available FULL appears Delete phone or memo records...

Page 52: ...THE SCHEDULE ALARM ON AND OFF 1 Press ALARM SCHED SCHED ULE appears 2 Press to turn on the alarm appears Press again to turn off the alarm Note Turning a schedule alarm on or off does not affect the d...

Page 53: ...HED ULE appears Note If there are no schedule alarms stored in your organizer NO SCHEDULE appears 2 Press SEARCH The first sched ule alarm appears To recall other schedule alarms repeatedly press SEAR...

Page 54: ...the first year digit 3 Press to move forward or to move backward to the digit you want to change Then enter the correct date and time 4 To change the message press ENTER The first character flashes 5...

Page 55: ...er a character Press SPACE to enter a space in place of a character To delete a character press DEL 6 To store the schedule alarm hold down ENTER until WAIT appears DELETING A SCHEDULE ALARM 1 Recall...

Page 56: ...56 3 If you are sure press Y The alarm is deleted Otherwise press N The schedule alarm remains...

Page 57: ...d that you assign Once you enter the password all the records you enter are automatically stored in the secret area You must en ter the password to recall a record in the secret area ENTERING A SECRET...

Page 58: ...ord can be up to 8 characters Be sure you can remember your password If you forget it you must reset the orga nizer which clears all records stored in the secret area see Resetting the Secret Memory o...

Page 59: ...off does not appear when you turn it back on To re enter the secret area press the desired function key then SECRET enter the password again and press ENTER To change the password you must completely...

Page 60: ...G A SECRET RECORD 1 Select the desired function using WEB SITE PHONE ALARM SCHED or MEMO TO DO 2 Press SECRET then enter the password 3 To recall edit or delete a secret file record see Using Records...

Page 61: ...61 CALCULATOR Press CONV CALC once to use the cal culator CAL and 0 appear CALCULATIONS Standard Calculations Press the keys in the order they ap pear in the arithmetic operation...

Page 62: ...ear all pending calculations Note If the result of a calculation has more than 10 digits or if you try to di vide by 0 E error appears To clear the error press C CE Square Calculations To do square ca...

Page 63: ...ts you do multistep calculations easily Use the following keys to perform memory calculations Press MC to clear the memory Press M to total a calculation and add the total to memory Press M to total a...

Page 64: ...Press MC to clear the memory Note M appears when you store a val ue in memory M disappears when you clear the memory For example to find 4 5 28 2 7 2 75 5 You press You see CONV CALC CAL 0 4 5 M M 20...

Page 65: ...rees Celsius degrees Fahrenheit Yards meters Inches centimeters Pounds kilograms Ounces grams Gallons liters Fluid ounces milliliters Miles kilometers Follow these steps to perform metric conversions...

Page 66: ...of the conversion The con verted number appears For example if you want to con vert 32 F to Celsius and the dis play shows DEG C DEG F press to change it to DEG C DEG F 0 appears The converted tempera...

Page 67: ...between four pairs of currencies The pre programmed pairs are US DM US US C Canadian US Or you can store your own pairs Follow these steps to convert curren cies 1 Press CONV CALC three times 2 Press...

Page 68: ...TER and enter the new currency name on the right Note You can press SYM to select the symbols you need when editing currency names 3 Press ENTER RATE appears 4 Enter the exchange rate For example if t...

Page 69: ...69 6 Press or to select the direc tion of the conversion The con verted amount appears The currency names and exchange rates you enter remain stored until you reset the organizer...

Page 70: ...ears Keep the organizer dry If it gets wet wipe it dry immediately Liq uids might contain minerals that can corrode electronic circuits Use and store the organizer only in normal temperature environ m...

Page 71: ...damage the circuit boards and cause it to work improperly Wipe the organizer with a damp cloth occasionally to keep it look ing new Do not use harsh chemi cals cleaning solvents or strong detergents...

Page 72: ...at can destroy the electronic circuits Modifying or tampering with the orga nizer s internal components can cause a malfunction and might invalidate the warranty If the organizer is not per forming as...

Page 73: ...ar We recommend RadioShack Cat No 23 162 for both main and back up batteries Cautions Never remove all three batteries inside the battery compartment at the same time If you do you could lose stored i...

Page 74: ...back up battery 1 Press ON OFF to turn off the orga nizer 2 Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the screw on the battery compartment cover then slide the cover off in the direction of the arrow on th...

Page 75: ...batteries promptly and properly Never burn batteries Keep batteries out of reach of children Swallowing a battery could be fatal Caution Be sure to keep the two main batteries in the battery com partm...

Page 76: ...This is useful if you forget the password or just want to free up memory by deleting the records in the secret area Note You must clear all records see Resetting All Memory on Page 77 before you can c...

Page 77: ...ars for about 2 seconds then the current date and time appear All the records stored in the orga nizer s secret memory are cleared Resetting All Memory If you want to clear all the records in the orga...

Page 78: ...key except Y in Step 3 ERASE DATA appears 2 Press Y RESET appears for about 2 seconds All the informa tion stored in the organizer s memory including records in the secret area is cleared You must re...

Page 79: ...One Lithium Battery 3V Type CR2032 RadioShack Cat No 23 162 Battery Life Main About 8 Months Back Up About 1 Year Automatic Power Off About 6 Minutes Working Temperature 32 104 F 0 40 C Dimensions HW...

Page 80: ...80 Specifications are typical individual units might vary Specifications are subject to change and improvement without notice...

Page 81: ...81 NOTES...

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Page 83: ...ORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT OR ARISING OUT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM INCONVENIENCE LOSS OF TIME DATA PROPERTY REVENUE OR PROFIT OR ANY INDIRECT...

Page 84: ...used by or attributable to acts of God abuse accident misuse im proper or abnormal usage failure to follow instructions im proper installation or maintenance alteration lightning or other incidence of...