M17 Project
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.
Today's Balance
$2.25
Estimated Annual Budget
$455
Contributors
M17 Project is all of us
Our contributors 47
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Silvano Seva
Admin
$190 USD
Wojciech Kacz...
Admin
Tom Early
Core Contributor
Mathis Schmieder
Core Contributor
Amateur Radio...
$68,151 USD
Eleshop B.V.
$3,085 USD
Incognito
$2,072 USD
Charityvest Inc.
$1,000 USD
William R Arcand
backer
$700 USD
Amateur Radio...
$500 USD
Fidelity Char...
$500 USD
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$30.77 USD
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Today’s balance$2.25 USD
Total raised
$73,322.10 USD
Total disbursed
$73,319.85 USD
Estimated annual budget
$454.65 USD
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News from M17 Project
Updates on our activities and progress.
M17 Foundation
M17 Foundation is the M17 Project's main fiscal sponsor. We do not accept any donations through the OCE anymore. The remaining funds remain at the Foundation's disposal. The M17 Foundation's website is at...
Published on February 18, 2025 by Wojciech Kaczmarski
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...
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...
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.
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.