About

Started in 2019 by Wojciech SP5WWP in Warsaw, Poland, the M17 Project's goal was to provide an open source, amateur radio designed digital radio protocol as an alternative to commercially available solutions. The name M17 is derived from the address of one of the amateur radio clubs in Warsaw - Mokotowska 17.

M17 has now grown into a community of open source developers and radio enthusiasts.

M17 is currently developing new open source hardware, software, and a 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 commercially available hardware, software, and digital voice modes. This is part of why amateur radio has largely stagnated since the 1990s and we're almost wholly dependent on commercial products.

M17 is about unlocking and creating the capabilities that amateur radio hardware should 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.

Come join the group! We're making ham radio fun.