Our goal is to start selling a commercially available radio to compete with the likes of Anytone, Yaseu, ICOM, China, etc.

I am sick of companies selling outdated hardware with bad, closed source software and lackluster updates and support. The majority of open source projects are not very beginner friendly, in many cases requiring hardware mods.

We aim to change that in our first radio, The HT-15. What will set this radio apart from competitors is:

• Fully open source, hardware and software
• Swappable radio module, allowing easy hardware upgradability (2M/70CM at launch)
• USBC charge and data, SD card, Kenwood style audio connector, removable battery
• Low-power E-ink display targeting 72+ hour standby time
• FM and M17 support at launch, with plans to support many other digital modes in the future such as DMR, P25 (depending on codec licensing)
• Ability for community to write and easily install “apps” that allow custom features or arbitrary digital mode development
• Usable off the shelf. We will be selling the radio as a complete unit (not just a devboard)
• Target price around $300, Selling all individual parts on our website for repairability

After this project is launched, it will remain open source, we will be selling the hardware on our website, maintaining and improving the code, and working on additional radio modules.

I am going to be posting regular development logs on our youtube channel, in addition to bringing y’all along on the process of starting a hardware business.

If you would like to follow along, links are at the bottom of this post.

If you would like to support development:

• Tell people about what we are doing
• Help review the schematics
• Support us financially at Buy Me a Coffee.

Our Youtube: youtube.com/@ArkosEngineering

Our Github: github.com/Arkos-Engineering/HT-15