Comment by rcarmo
8 hours ago
CB stands for Citizen's Band, and was the moniker back in the Usenet days. Yes, I know I am dating myself here.
8 hours ago
CB stands for Citizen's Band, and was the moniker back in the Usenet days. Yes, I know I am dating myself here.
Yes, and ham radio is the international emergency mesh. CB radio isn't.
The request was for "a proper, working emergency meshing standard". Ham radio absolutely is not that. Yes, ham radios are used in emergency situations, but usually not as a mesh and certainly not as a standard.
“Mesh” doesn’t even make sense wrt ham. Aren’t hams just people broadcasting voice with amplitude modulation? Is there a data band? If so, are any hams willing to relay?
My uncle definitely had a CB radio in his big rig, not ham, to hear him describe it.