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I believe it's called ham radio

• rcarmo 4mo ago
  CB stands for Citizen's Band, and was the moniker back in the Usenet days. Yes, I know I am dating myself here.
  • CalRobert 4mo ago
    My uncle definitely had a CB radio in his big rig, not ham, to hear him describe it.
  • tardedmeme 4mo ago
    Yes, and ham radio is the international emergency mesh. CB radio isn't.
    • wtallis 4mo ago
      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.
      • jagged-chisel 4mo ago
        “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?
        • pelotron 4mo ago
          No, yes, and yes.
          • jagged-chisel 4mo ago
            Honestly, thanks for correcting me and being succinct. Have an updoot.
        • tardedmeme 4mo ago
          That's also what a wireless mesh network is. Nodes shout as loud as they can, and try to find other nodes to relay messages for them. Ham radio is a manually operated mesh, like semaphores.
      • apitman 4mo ago
        I think GP meant that ham is a mesh in the sense that individual operators will communicate and spread information.