PRESIDENT Andy USA Owner's Manual page 12

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 channel
Blocking the channel : Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Blue boys : Police
Break : Used to ask permission to join a
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
interfering with the transmission
conversation
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? : Please give me an S-meter reading
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: 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