Buddy received a response to his inquiry about the new handheld from Powerwerx he told us about several days ago. He sent me the information he got, and I am sharing it with you, hoping we can avoid all of the weird characters that Buddy often has problems with in his messages, which are no fault of his. Did I hear someone say: 
"It's the stupid list!" -- Ron, K8HSY

-----Original Message-----
From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 2:51 PM
To: Dr. Ron Milliman
Subject: Re: Yet Another Dualband Handheld

... Here are the highlights.

The radio is marketed and designed for Powerwerx, Tera is their house brand name, and their dual band mobile, which is the Anytone AT-5888UV RF deck with custom firmware, will be marketed under the Tera name when they upgrade/redesign/whatever it. 

Anyway, the Tera TR-599 does not talk. Ken tells me that he wanted the programming and interface inspired by the Yaesu FT-530. Reading through the manual, however, I’m not seeing the resemblance. It’s possible that the radio could be accessible, if they use different pitched beep tones or marker tones in the menus, but I didn’t get clarification on that. I did, however, send my suggestions for accessibility in a case where they didn’t want to or could not include voice tags. If you want to see that Email with my thoughts on that, I’m happy to pass it on. 

The Tera handhelds use Motorola compatible programming cables and speaker/mics. 

Those are the high points, anyway. 

—
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: 814-860-3194
Mobile: 814-431-0962
Email: [log in to unmask]



> On Feb 1, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Dr. Ronald E. Milliman]\` <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Buddy, did you ever get a response from Powerwerx about that new 
> handheld you ran across?
> 
> Ron, K8HSY
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Yet Another Dualband Handheld
> 
> Hi y'all,
> 
> Just saw this on a blog yesterday. I'm intrigued. A bit more expensive 
> than some of them, but it has separate volume controls for both bands apparently.
> The company page, which appears to also be registered to Powerwerx, 
> mentions spoken prompts, but the Powerwerx page does not. I have an 
> inquiry in to Powerwerx about this. Will let you know what they tell me.
> 
> http://www.powerwerx.com/two-way-radios/tera-handheld-radios/tera-tr-5
> 90-=
> dual-band-commercial.html
> 
> --Buddy, KB5ELV