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 ====== M17 Digital Radio Protocol — History of Development ====== ====== M17 Digital Radio Protocol — History of Development ======
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 The M17 digital radio protocol has its roots in Warsaw, Poland, at the turn of 2018–2019. The project was started by Wojciech Kaczmarski (callsign SP5WWP), who was a member of a local amateur radio club involved in digital voice communications. Having experimented with proprietary systems like TETRA and DMR, Kaczmarski decided to create a completely non-proprietary protocol and named it after the club's street address — Mokotowska 17. The frustration driving his effort was clear: existing digital modes like DMR, C4FM, and others used the proprietary AMBE codec, which contradicts the amateur radio community's values of open-access technologies that encourage experimentation and knowledge sharing. The M17 digital radio protocol has its roots in Warsaw, Poland, at the turn of 2018–2019. The project was started by Wojciech Kaczmarski (callsign SP5WWP), who was a member of a local amateur radio club involved in digital voice communications. Having experimented with proprietary systems like TETRA and DMR, Kaczmarski decided to create a completely non-proprietary protocol and named it after the club's street address — Mokotowska 17. The frustration driving his effort was clear: existing digital modes like DMR, C4FM, and others used the proprietary AMBE codec, which contradicts the amateur radio community's values of open-access technologies that encourage experimentation and knowledge sharing.

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