One of CB radios most endearing features is its simplicity. You turn it on, you pick a channel and press the button to talk. No need to worry about the right antenna, the right frequency, anybody else talking and upsetting anybody.
most of us can get our heads around it. It doesn't require any outside interference to make it work.
You know what made cell phones so popular?
The ability to text.
Just think of the possibilities if we could hook up a little screen or have screens big enough to read some text...and keyboard device to our cb's and use text...(As well)(Maybe not while driving...) Text to a bunch of mates using selective calling...without some means of storing them like a phone company does if one is not connected it would have to be real time...Retain all the other features of CB as they are...If they can stick that technology into a tiny little hand phone we should be able to have something similar in a CB radio.
I guess special modes and special channels but we have quite a lot of space on CB these days anyway! Taxis and other businesses have all that and more on their VHF/UHFfrequencies.
Maybe in time there will be local repeaters set up that could store and retransmit as radios were turned on and checked in..all automatic...
Technology has left us behind. CB is a dinosaur. Needs more than the ability to play music and fancy colours to revive this ageing behemoth.
The marine industry is incorporating this type of thing into their HF and VHF radios. It is called GMDSS.
That technology should soon be filtering through to the rest of the HF world and maybe to CB.
Maybe?
