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This list just hit 100 subscribers, so given that it’s still on the Free tier at , we’re full up (cannot accept any additional subscribers) until I step up to support the Paid tier.

If you aren’t on the Connect Systems mailing list, I suggest you do so to follow the progress of the CS M17 Radios. If you go to??and stay there for a few minutes, you should see a popup for the CS newsletter. I wish I had a stable URL for subscribing, but I don’t.

Here’s the latest from the CS newsletter as of today:

STATUS OF M17 PROJECT

The CS7000 M17 has started shipping. The first two has shipped to Japan. The rest will ship either Monday or Tuesday. They would have shipped yesterday but the manufacturer forgot to include the programming cables. The cables are being shipped by DHL and they suppose to be here on Tuesday. I am hoping they will get here on Monday.

All the radios are packed along with the USPS labels on the box. Only need to put the programming cable in the box and close it.

Once we start shipping those radios, the price will go from $249 to $299. As I said in an earlier email, the discount is because the early buyers are in effect subsidizing the production and I thought they should get a discount.

The CS7000 M17 PLUS is coming along but we did have one hiccup. The manufacturer wanted to make sure the DVSI vocoder will work on the M7 version of the ARM microprocessor. The current microprocessor is the M4 version of the microprocessor. They are going to try it and should get the results in a few more days. ST micro says the M7 is backwards compatible with the M4.

I thought I would find out about the compatibility myself by asking DVSI, the originator of the vocoder. They had a nasty attitude and told me unless I was the licensee of the vocoder, they would not tell me.

I started out by calling them and the person I needed to speak to was not there. I left a message and they never called me back. Because they did not call back, over the next two days I called a few times per day hoping I would get someone. No one answered when I called them. Then they asked me not to call so much. If they answered and told me they would not give me an answer I would not have bothered them again.

Over the next few days you will see an application note on our website on how to convert from DMR to M17 and M17 to DMR.

Supporting The M17 Project

We are asking the amateur community to buy in advance one or more of the radios. When the radios are available, you will be the first to get them at a discount from the standard price of the radio. If at anytime you decide you would rather not support this project, you can get your money back and then get in the back of the line for when the radios are released.

As far as I'm aware, CS is the only company that is shipping a radio that can do M17 “out of the box”.

I hope there will be significant support for Connect Systems with these radios. I wish I could purchase a pair, but my experiment budget is insufficient to do so at the moment.

Request:

Do you know of a repeater that includes MMDVM support, that can corresponding do M17? Please post back to this list if you know of such a repeater.

Thanks,

Steve N8GNJ

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