i like librium... i would almost guarantee that it TOO will be just ANOTHER clone. oh, yeah, with a tweak here & a tweak there, just to SAY it is a new design. NOBODY is DESIGNING a new CB radio from the ground up. ranger/rci just about has the market cornered, not enough people(truckers) would EVER jump the 'galaxy' ship to ANY other manufacturer therefore making a NEW design unprofitable. do you REALLY think icom & yaesu sell enough $10,000+ radios to make THEM profitable-NO, but at 10 grand, they'll get closer quicker. ain't NO CBer EVER paying HF radio prices for a CB.....well a reasonable CBer....guess there ain't too many of those either, but you get the point.