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 fi xed location
Bear
: Policeman
Bear bite
: Speeding fi ne
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
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
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