Vidicode Call Recorder Manual

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Contents 
1 INTRODUCTION  7 
1.1 C
ONNECTING TO THE TELEPHONE NETWORK TO RECORD CALLS 8 
1.2 C
AP ACI TY OF  THE  RECORDER 9 
1.3 T
HE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE THREE TYPES OF CALL 
RECORDER. 10 
1.3.1  The Hard Disk Call Recorder ................................................... 10 
1.3.2  The LS120 Call Recorder ........................................................ 10 
1.3.3  The Flash Call Recorder...

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4.3 OPERATING OPTIONS WHILE RECORDING 34 
4.4 S
EARCH AND PLAY 35 
4.4.1  Searching and Finding Recordings .......................................... 35 
4.4.2  The Function of the Recorder Keys Before and During Playback36 
4.5 RECORDER SETTINGS 38 
4.5.1  Access to Recorder Settings.................................................... 38 
4.5.2  Card Always Needed ............................................................... 38 
4.5.3...

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8  THE CALL RECORDER IN USE AS A TELEPHONE  55 
8.1 O
PERATING THE CALL RECORDER AS A NORMAL TELEPHONE 55 
8.2 C
ONFIGURING THE TELEPHONE FUNCTIONS 58 
8.2.1  Telephone Active or not ........................................................... 58 
8.2.2  Hook Flash and Earth Flash .................................................... 58 
8.2.3  Waiting after Dialling ................................................................ 59 
8.2.4 Caller...

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12  THE CRYPTO CARD OPTION  79 
12.1 H
OW A CRYPTO CARD WORKS 79 
12.2 C
HANGING THE CARD CODE 80 
12.3 R
ECORDING WITH THE CRYPTO CARD 81 
12.4 P
LAYING RECORDINGS WITH THE CRYPTO CARD 81 
13  ERASING A RECORDING  83 
14 MAINTENANCE  85 
14.1 C
HANGING THE DISK DRIVE 85 
15  POSSIBLE PROBLEMS & FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS87 
15.1 P
OSSIBLE PROBLEMS 87 
15.2 F
REQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 89 
16 ACCESSORIES  91 
17 GUARANTEE CONDITIONS  95 
18...

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1 Introduction 
The Call Recorder is an audio recorder with certain special features:   
•  It has been specially designed to record telephone conversations 
•  It has connections for a microphone, a telephone headset and a 
telephone line 
•  It records digitally  
•  It starts and stops recording  automatically (or manually, if preferred) 
•  It archives the recordings to facilitate searching 
•  It highly compresses recordings, resulting in a...

Call Recorder Manual ©-2001 Vidicode Datacommunicatie BV  8 •  The Flash Call Recorder, with enough memory to record the 
occasional conversation and a capacity of 3.5 or 7 hours 
•  The LS120 Call Recorder, with exchangeable LS120 disks each 
having a capacity of about 32 hours. 
The Call Recorder can function as a recorder only, but also as a telephone or 
telephone answering machine, whichever you prefer.  
1.1  Connecting to the Telephone Network to Record Calls 
There are four ways of connecting the...

Call Recorder Manual ©-2001 Vidicode Datacommunicatie BV  9 switchboard at some central point. The switchboard determines the 
beginning and the end of the recording via the external contact. If there is 
no external contact the recorder is activated when people speak on the 
line, and de-activated when nothing has been said for some time. 
1.2  Capacity of the Recorder 
The Call Recorder can be set to operate seven different audio compression 
techniques. The standard quality is meant for storage of...

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G.711 ALaw  260 hours  520 hours  0,5 hours  1 hours  4 hours 
G.711 µLaw 260 hours  520 hours  0,5 hours  1 hours  4 hours 
 
1.3  The differences between the three types of Call Recorder. 
The table above shows that there are three different types of Call Recorder: 
one with a hard disk, one with an internal flash memory and one with an 
exchangeable LS120 disk. Each type of recorder treats the medium it records 
from in a different  way....