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M17 Project

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amateur radio
community
digital voice
ham radio
Open source
radio
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M17 is a community of open source developers and radio enthusiasts. We're building understandable systems in support of the experimenters' history of ham radio.

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Incognito

$2,072 USD since Mar 2023

2
William R Arcand

$672.66 USD since Sep 2022

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Patrick DelBarba

$425 USD since Oct 2022

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LILYGO

$351 USD since Jul 2024

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Guest

$320 USD since Jan 2024

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EURAO

$250 USD since Jul 2024

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Michael DK1MI

$235 USD since Jul 2023

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Silvano Seva

$190 USD since Jul 2023

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k5jae

$155 USD since Apr 2023

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AsciiWolf

$126 USD since May 2024

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Amateur Radio Digital Communications

$68,151.43 USD since Oct 2022

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Eleshop B.V.

$3,084.66 USD since Aug 2023

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Charityvest Inc.

$1,000 USD since Jun 2023

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Amateur Radio Relay League

$500 USD since Oct 2022

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Fidelity Charitable

$500 USD since Mar 2024

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American Radio Relay League

$250 USD since Mar 2023

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Silvano Seva

Core Contributor

$190 USD

Wojciech Kacz...

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Steve Miller

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ed wilson

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Mathis Schmieder

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Tom Early

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Amateur Radio...

$68,151 USD

Eleshop B.V.

$3,085 USD

Incognito

$2,072 USD

Charityvest Inc.

$1,000 USD

William R Arcand

backer

$673 USD

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+$30.00USD
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Contribution #763920
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Credit from William R Arcand to M17 Project •

+$27.73USD
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Today’s balance

$697.21 USD

Total raised

$73,262.48 USD

Total disbursed

$72,565.27 USD

Estimated annual budget

$3,198.04 USD

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News from M17 Project

Updates on our activities and progress.

M17 on to HamXposition!

If you're in the area of New England this Summer, come see the M17 Project team at the Northeast HamXposition in Marlborough, MA! We will have some hardwar...
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Published on July 15, 2022 by Steve Miller

M17 on to Ham Radio Friedrichshafen!

Come see M17 at the largest ham radio expo in the EU at Ham Radio 2022 in Friedrichshafen, Germany June 24-26, 2022! M17 + OpenRTXhall/stand no.: A1-330 M17 Team attendees:Wojciech SP5WWPMathis DB9MATHonore...
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Published on June 21, 2022 by Steve Miller

About

M17's Current Goal:

M17 is developing a new digital radio protocol for data and voice, made by and for amateur radio operators.

Our protocol's voice mode uses the free and open Codec 2 voice encoder. This means there are no patents, no royalties, and no licensing or legal barriers to scratch-building your own radio or modifying one you already own.

This freedom to build, understand, and innovate is core to amateur radio, but has been missing from the commercially available digital voice modes. This is part of why amateur radio digital voice modes have largely stagnated since the 1990s and we're almost wholly dependent on commercial products that aren't well designed for amateur radio users.

M17 is about unlocking the capabilities that amateur radio hardware should already have.

Here you will find people working on radio hardware designs that can be copied and built by anyone, software that anyone has the freedom to modify and share to suit their own needs, and other open systems that respect your freedom to tinker.

Our team

Silvano Seva

Core Contributor

Wojciech Kacz...

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Steve Miller

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ed wilson

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Mathis Schmieder

Core Contributor

Tom Early

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Morgan Diepart

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