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V isual T ouch TTY Model: KVT100 First Edition 2005 INSTRUCTION MANUAL.
Krown Visual Touch TTY | Instructions | 1st Edition | April 2005 Krown Manufacturing, Inc. 3408 Indale Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76116 voice: (817) 738-2485 | TTY: (817) 738-8993 | Fax: (817) 738-1970 E-mail: info@krownmfg.
The Federal Communications Commission under Part 68 Rules and Regulations has granted your Braille-TTY KVT100 a registration number for direct connection to the telephone lines. The FCC requires that you be advised of the requirements involved with owning a telecommunications device.
5. Y our telephone company may make changes in its facilities, equipment, operations or procedures that could affect the proper functioning of your KVT100. If changes occur , you will be notified in advance to give you an opportunity to maintain uninterrupted service.
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6 SETTING UP YOUR VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE Place your Visual T ouch Braille refreshable (Vtouch) and the KVT100 TDD on a table in front of you. Have the KVT100 and the Vtouch keyboard facing you either side by side or the KVT100 on top of the Vtouch near your telephone outlet.
7 ACOUSTIC/DIRECT CONNECT MODES Acoustic coupling: Place the telephone hand set on top of the TDD with the cord on the left hand side. T ype your greeting message and finish with a GA (Go Ahead).
BAUDOT CODE The standard 45.5 Baud Baudot code is used For North America. The rest of the world uses 50 Baud baudot. To make a call outside of the country , press and hold the CTRL key then tap the LEFT ARROW key . By pressing “Y” on your keyboard, you choose to change speed of your TTY to make an international call.
ELECTRONIC VOICE The Electronic V oice is a single unchangeable voice message that is stored in the memory of your TDD. The message is used for calling hearing people at a VOICE/TDD number . It tells them by electronic voice: “Please use TDD for hearing-impaired caller .
The Ni-Cad batteries will operate for approximately 3 hours when fully charged. The batteries will automati- cally recharge whenever the units are plugged into the AC charger/adapter . T o help the battery last longer , let the units run down until the KVT100 stops working.
After setting up and turning on your KVT100 you see the message “BRAILLE MODE READY” or “TTY MODE READY” on both units. The machine is ready to use. T ry brailing or typing some characters. For example: “abcdef.” Y ou will see the characters you brailled dis- played from left to right and ended by six lower dots of a Braille cell.
Continuing to press RIGHT ARROW toward the end of conversation will link the two units back together automatically when cursor hits the current position. If you want to exit this function without having to browse to the end of the message, press RETURN any time to force the KVT100 to link to the Visual T ouch Braille Display .
ANSWERING A CALL IN ACOUSTIC MODE 1. T urn the Power Switch on. 2. Pick up and place your telephone handset firmly into the acoustic cups of the KVT100 with the cord to the LEFT . 3. By pressing the SP ACE BAR , you start the conversation. T ype your greeting message.
The TTY has a 32K (32768 characters) memory . The memory feature can save you time by letting you save often used messages, prepare a message before making a call to save on long distance charges, and to save frequently called numbers.
3. T ype the message you want to store with a full-type keyboard. Do not use 6 keys in Braille mode. Y our message will be displayed as you type with a space between each character on your Braille display . These extra spaces will not appear when your message is sent.
VIEWING A STORED MESSAGE To read a message stored in memory , you must first access the memory areas by pressing CTRL-5 , then type a number to tell the KVT100 where the message is stored. The area name (for example, M2) will be shown on the right side of the display , and the message will be shown in the center of the KVT100 display .
4. Press spacebar The location’s label and the cursor will appear on the right end of the display . 5. T ype the name and number 6. Press CTRL-9 to save. “MEMORY SA VED” will appear on the display . NOTE: Numbers can be separated with a “-” DASH but only numbers will be dialed.
CREA TING A P ASSWORD Y ou will need a password to retrieve your message in your house answering machine when you are away from home. Y our password will be stored in location 0 (zero) of the Phone Directory . A password must be at least five characters in length.
3. Select the location you want to delete. The display will show: “TYPE NAME, NO NOW” 4. Press the SP ACE BAR to delete the entry . 5. Press CTRL-9 to save. The display will show: “MEMORY SA VED” Note: that after pressing the space bar to delete an entry , you may type a new phone number.
The Direct Connect feature saves time, and more reliable for a connection. It also gives the choice of dialing from the keyboard or from numbers stored in the Phone Directory . The user also can watch the progress of the call when dialing a number . If the first cell rises up and down in 1-second cycles, you are receiving a busy line.
Press the number you wish to dial. If you make a mistake, use the backspace to erase and type a correct number . After you enter all numbers, press RETURN key to start the dialing process. The number you entered will be dialed. Y ou can press CTRL-9 to disconnect.
ANSWER A CALL IN DIRECT CONNECT MODE 1. Press SHIFT -DIAL to connect your phone to the telephone line. Check the display to see if the message “ONLINE READY” is shown on your Visual T ouch. 2. T ype your greeting message to start the conversation.
1. First, use memory bank3 to set up an outgoing message. (See Entering and Saving a Message page 15) For example: “HELLO. THIS IS JOHN’S ANSWERING MACHINE. PLEASE TYPE YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER AND I WILL RETURN YOUR CALL SK” 2. Set your TDD to Auto Answer: Press CTRL-0 (zero) to enter auto answer mode.
Press CTRL-5 and select 5 to read messages. After checking all messages, erase memory 5 by pressing CTRL-C (If you wish to delete all messages.) Answering an Incoming Call with Auto Answer On To answer an incoming call when Auto Answer is on, press SHIFT -DIAL before or after the auto answer mes- sage is sent.
REMOTE MESSAGE RETRIEV AL The Remote Message Retrieval feature lets you retrieve your messages while away from home. Be sure to store a password in location “0” (zero) of the Phone Directory (see page 14). Set your TDD to Auto Answer mode by pressing CTRL-0.
T AKING CARE OF VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE CAUTION: The adapters are NOT interchangeable. Y ou MUST use the adapters that come with your KVT100. • Be sure to turn your unit OFF when not in use. (Unless in Auto Answer mode) • Keep your machine away from extreme temperatures (120 degrees or above).
Q. After I read back in a conversation, there’s nothing sent to the Braille display . A. Make sure that you quit the unlink mode by pressing RETURN key several times or CTRL-E to reach the current position of cursor then RIGHT ARROW key to link both units together .
TTY users often abbreviate commonly used words or expressions to save time. The following abbreviations are a sampling of those most frequently used. It is also common to omit punctuation. ANS ....................................Answer QQ ............
ASCII BRAILLE CHARACTER CODE DOT PATTERN 32 ( ) space 33 ! ( 234 6 ) exclamation mark 34 “ ( 5 ) double quotes 35 # ( 3456 ) number sign 36 $ (12 4 6 ) dollar 37 % (1 4 6 ) percent 38 & (1234 6 .
84 T ( 2345 7 ) capital t 85 U (1 3 67 ) capital u 86 V (123 67 ) capital v 87 W ( 2 4567 ) capital w 88 X (1 34 67 ) capital x 89 Y (1 34567 ) capital y 90 Z (1 3 567 ) capital z 91 [ ( 2 4 67 ) rect.
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