Hi all: 

Last night I took the time to email Mike Dishop of Dishtronix/Tentec and here's his response below and my email as well. 
He didn't sugar coat things and his reply was pretty much as expected but there also maybe some hope indicated in the email as well. 

73: 
Mike DE VO1AXSent from BlueMail



On Jan 7, 2016, 1:49 PM, at 1:49 PM, "Steven M. Dishop" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Mr. Ryan,
>
>Thank you for your email dated 6 January.
>
>To be honest with you I have never thought about it before.  To be very
>direct, I am more overloaded with things to do and problems to solve
>than I have ever been before in my life.  With that said, I fully
>appreciate and support the idea, but it may be some time before I can
>even think about implementing it.  I am in a real battle and struggle
>to get Ten Tec back to where it needs to be.  It is going to be some
>time before I would have resources to do anything like this.  I would
>have to find some kind of grant money or endowment to subsidize this as
>I certainly do not have resources right now, just days after purchasing
>this company.  I don’t want to sugar coat it and give you false hope. 
>As much as I would like to do this, it probably will be years before we
>can do it.
>
>With that said, you are talking to the right people. You mentioned Ham
>Radio Deluxe. It just so happens that my dear friend John Henry is
>doing some coding for Rick Ruhl who owns HRD and I am passing
>everything of this email along to John to hopefully discuss with RIck. 
>If there is any way we can do this we will find a way, because I fully
>support any kind of work Ten Tec can do to help others. At the same
>time please understand that we have to be healthy enough to take care
>of ourselves before we can do something like this.
>
>Thank you again for your email and for bringing this to my attention.
>You have planted the seed. Don’t give up hope.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Mike N8WFF
>
>
>From: Michael Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 9:04 PM
>To: Steven M. Dishop <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Please forward to Mr. Mike Dishop (Future blind accessibility
>of Tentec Transceivers)
>
>
>Dear Mr. Dishop:
>
>Now that your Company Dishtronix has acquired the beloved Tentec brand,
>are there any plans to possibly look at adding blind accessibility in
>the form of voice announcing of some of the basic functions in any of
>the future TT rigs?  Kenwood has a voice synthasizer that announces
>S-9, frequency, mode and a complete list of its menus so that we as
>blind hams can use their rigs without sighted assistance. Icom also has
>a speech synthasizer but its only limited to S-9, frequency and mode,
>likewise Yaesu for its FT-450D but they don't have accessibility in any
>of their high end rigs.
>Elecraft uses CW for its info along with software to be installed on a
>windows machine. I would think that Dishtronix and TT could achieve a
>software solution that would allow blind hams to fully control a TT rig
>from initial setup to everyday operation since most of us have a
>computer in the shack for logging etc. The older versions of a program
>called Ham Radio Deluxe, I'm going back 4 or 5 years now, was very
>accessible. We could press different function keys on a windows
>computer and the computer would speak the info requested from the
>connected rig. So if we had that and also have access to the  front
>panel of a connected transceiver for adjusting etc, this would be a
>very big step and would give blind hams a real choice. Also, with smart
>phone technology and apps, this could be another root of accessibility.
>If your a latest Apple iPhone or Android user, take a look at the
>screen readers Voice over for Apple and TalkBack for Android. Perhaps 1
>of the new projected TT rigs could be connected to a LAN and the rig
>could be controlled by an app.
>These are some of the ideas that us blind hams have been bantying about
>our email lists one of which is the blind-hams list. I hope this email
>will reach you and you  will take some of these ideas under advisement.
>I look forward to Tentec becoming a major player again and hopefully I
>will be interested in purchasing in the near future.
>I'd like to thank you very much for your time, have a happy and healthy
>new year.
>
>73:
>Michael DE VO1AX
>
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