Also known as: M17 Project

The M17 Project is an open-source community that develops the royalty-free M17 amateur digital-voice protocol along with open hardware and software implementations.¹

The M17 Project is the open-source community that maintains the royalty-free M17 protocol.

Overview

Founded in 2019, the project set out to build a modern amateur protocol free of vocoder licensing constraints, adopting the open Codec 2 vocoder instead of patented alternatives.

Relevance to SDR

The project’s openness makes fully free M17 decoders possible, including GopherTrunk’s link-layer support.

Sources

1. M17 Project — the project’s official site, home of the royalty-free M17 protocol and open implementations. ↩

See also

• M17
• Codec 2
• Vocoder

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• The digital protocol landscape