M17 on your Pi-Star
M17 is one of the most exciting things happening on ham radio, this article covers my patch to turn a Pi-Star into an M17 enabled system.

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M17 is one of the most exciting things happening on ham radio, this article covers my patch to turn a Pi-Star into an M17 enabled system.
There are a few adjustments you can make to the Menu settings and Functions, along with “hard” adjustments to the knobs on the front of the FT-991A that will improve your SSB Signal Receives.
The modification only works on European models and by removing 2 diodes the frequency can be expanded by a few MHz to the USA
Using the new Icom IC-9700 in D-Star DV Internal Terminal mode and connecting to the multi-protocol XLX122 B reflector. Radio is running the latest firmware as of June 29, 2019 ver 1.11