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PhoneSweep will not dial any numbers until Outside hours begin at 5:00 PM (You will see the green
radar going on the bottom right hand side of the user interface even when no numbers are being dialed).
2.10.3 The Blackout period
To exclude specific periods from PhoneSweep’s dialing without changing the time period settings, you
can use Blackout Start and Blackout End under the Setup->Time sub-tab. For example, one day you
may need to exclude the period from 8:00 PM until 9:30 AM to avoid calling while the phone switch is
being repaired. You would set the Blackout Start to 8 PM and the Blackout End to 9:30 AM.
2.10.4 Controlling Sweeps through the use of other Time Options
The Setup->Time and Setup->Dialing sub-tabs also allow you to control the following:
• How long PhoneSweep will wait for a response from a number it has dialed before it goes on to
the next number within different time periods (Setup->Time: Seconds or Ring Timeout –
altering one, alters the other)
• How long PhoneSweep will wait for a response after a line picks up (Setup->Dialing: Single
Call Voice Timeout (secs).
• How long to wait between calls before dialing (Setup->Time: Delay between Calls). Defaults
to 5 seconds. We recommend you do not lower this value, as doing so does not give the dialing
modems time enough to set up for the next call.
2.10.5 Schedule Sweep Start and Stop on the currently open profile
As of PhoneSweep 3.0, you can schedule when sweeps on the current open profile will start and stop. The
default value is –OFF--, as seen in the Start and Stop Sweep boxes at the bottom of the PhoneSweep user
interface.
To schedule a start time, click on and hold down the Start button until a pop-up menu appears, or select
Schedule start from the File->Start drop down menu.
To schedule a stop time, click on and hold down either the Start button when no sweep is running, or the
Stop button when a sweep is running, or select Schedule stop from the File->Start or File->Stop drop
down menus. Please see Section 5.4 “Starting and Ending a Sweep Automatically” for further
information.
2.11 The phonesweep.ini File
Advanced users can use the phonesweep.ini file, located in the top-level PhoneSweep directory, to
customize PhoneSweep defaults. For example, if you must dial a certain prefix before every phone
number in every profile, you can modify the phonesweep.ini file to include this prefix by default in every
new profile. A more detailed discussion of the phonesweep.ini file is found in Section 11, Customizing
PS Defaults Using the PhoneSweep.INI file.
2.12 Emergency Number Screening
It is highly inappropriate to call local emergency services during a PhoneSweep scan. For this reason,
PhoneSweep can automatically screen numbers in an attempt to avoid accidental calls to the emergency
number 911 or even 9911. However, there are other emergency numbers or hot lines that you might want
to avoid scanning, and outside the United States, emergency numbers other than 911 are used. In
PhoneSweep, you can set your own emergency number screening list on a per-profile basis on the Setup-
>Dialing sub-tab. For your convenience, 911 and 9911 are automatically listed.