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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 transmission
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
English