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
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
: 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
: Tire
: Turning CB off
: Go to a lower channel
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