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.

I think GP meant that ham is a mesh in the sense that individual operators will communicate and spread information.

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.

No, yes, and yes.

Honestly, thanks for correcting me and being succinct. Have an updoot.

My uncle definitely had a CB radio in his big rig, not ham, to hear him describe it.