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
Back off
Basement
Base station
Bear
Bear bite
Bear cage
Big slab
Big 10-4
Bleeding
Blocking the channel
Blue boys
Break
Breaker
Clean and green
Cleaner channel
Coming in loud and proud
Doughnut
Down and gone
Down one
Do you copy?
DX
Eighty eights
Eye ball
Good buddy
Hammer
Handle
Harvey wall banger
: Flashing lights of police car
: Slow down
: Channel 1
: A CB set in fixed location
: Policeman
: Speeding fine
: Police station
: Motorway
: Absolutely
: Signal from an adjacent channel
interfering with the transmission
: Pressing the PTT switch without talk-
ing
: Police
: Used to ask permission to join a
conversation
: A CBer wishing to join a channel
: Clear of police
: Channel with less interference
: Good reception
: Tyre
: Turning CB off
: Go to a lower channel
: Understand?
: Long distance
: Love and kisses
: CBers meeting together
: Fellow CBer
: Accelerator
: CBer's nickname
: Dangerous driver
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