PRESIDENT WALKER II FCC Manuel D'utilisation page 14

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-
Blocking the channel : Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Blue boys : Police
Break : Used to ask permission to join
Breaker : A CBer wishing to join a channel
Clean and green : Clear of police
nel interfering with the trans-
mission
a conversation
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
How am I hitting you?
Keying the mike
Kojac with a kodak
Land line
Lunch box
Man with a gun
Mayday
Meat wagon
Midnight shopper
Modulation
Negative copy
Over your shoulder
Part your hair
Pull your hammer back
Rat race
Rubberbander
Sail boat fuel
Smokey dozing
Smokey with a camera
Spaghetti bowl
Stinger
Turkey
Up one
Wall to wall
What am I putting to you?
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: 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
: How are you receiving me?
: Pressing the PTT switch without
talking
: Police radar
: Telephone
: CB set
: Police radar
: SOS
: Ambulance
: Thief
: Conversation
: No reply
: Right behind you
: Behave yourself - police ahead
: Slow down
: Congested traffic
: New CBer
: Wind
: Parked police car
: Police radar
: Interchange
: Antenna
: Dumb CBer
: Go up one channel
: All over/everywhere
: Please give me an S-meter
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