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TECHNICAL VOCABULARY
AM : Amplitude Modulation
CB : Citizen’s Band
CH : Channel
CW : Continuous Wave
DX : Long Distance Liaison
DW : Dual Watch
FM : Frequency Modulation
GMT : Greenwich Meantime
HF
: High Frequency
LF
: Low Frequency
LSB : Lower Side Band
RX : Receiver
SSB : Single Side Band
SWR : Standing Wave Ratio
SWL : Short Wave Listening
SW : Short Wave
TX
: CB Transceiver
UHF : Ultra High Frequency
USB : Upper Side Band
VHF : Very High Frequency
CB LANGUAGE
Advertising
: Flashing lights of police car
Back off
: Slow down
Basement
: Channel 1
Base station
: A CB set in fixed location
Bear
: Policeman
Bear bite
: Speeding fine
Bear cage
: Police station
Big slab
: Motorway
Big 10-4
: Absolutely
Bleeding
: Signal from an adjacent chan-
nel interfering with the trans-
mission
Blocking the channel
: Pressing the PTT switch without
talking
Blue boys
: Police
Break
: Used to ask permission to join
a conversation
Breaker
: A CBer wishing to join a channel
Clean and green
: Clear of police
Cleaner channel
: Channel with less interference
Coming in loud and proud : Good reception
Doughnut
: Tyre
Down and gone
: Turning CB off
Down one
: Go to a lower channel
Do you copy?
: Understand?
DX
: Long distance
Eighty eights
: Love and kisses
Eye ball
: CBers meeting together
Good buddy
: Fellow CBer
Hammer
: Accelerator
Handle
: CBer’s nickname
Harvey wall banger
: Dangerous driver
How am I hitting you?
: How are you receiving me?
Keying the mike
: Pressing the PTT switch without
talking
Kojac with a kodak
: Police radar
Land line
: Telephone
Lunch box
: CB set
Man with a gun
: Police radar
Mayday
: SOS
Meat wagon
: Ambulance
Midnight shopper
: Thief
Modulation
: Conversation
English
