JARGON

 
Affirmative
Base Station
Bear In The Air
Bears
Bear Trap
Big 4
Breaker
Bring It On
Brown Bottle Shop
Burner
Bucket Mouth
Buzby
Catch You On The Flip Flop
Chicken Box
Come Back/On
Copy
Down And Gone
DXing
Earwigging
Eyeball
Greenshields
Handle
Kicker
Landline
Modulating
Negatory
On The Side
On Channel
Plank
Planking About
QSK
Rig Check
Rig
Seatcover
Skip
Smokey
SWR (Swar)
TVI
Twig
Wall To Wall & Tree Top Tall
Wrapper
YL
XYL

Yes.
Static CB station. Home base.
Police helicopter or plane.
Police.
Radar trap.
Yes I agree. I understand.
CB user.
Go ahead.
Pub.
RF Power amplifier. Kicker.
User of bad language.
British Telecom official.
Talk to you on the return journey.
CB rig.
Reply.
Do you understand?
Going off the air.
Long distance communicating.
Listening to channels.
A meeting. Visual contact.
Pound notes.
CB Nickname.
RF Power amplifier. Burner.
Telephone.
Talking.
No.
Standing by ready to join in copy.
On air.
Fool. Idiot.
Fooling about on channel annoying others.
Standing by ready to join in copy.
Check quality of transmission.
CB Transceiver.
Girl/Boyfriend.
Mushy sound of distant stations.
Police Officer.
Standing Wave Ratio.
Television Interference.
Aerial
Clear strong signal.
Car
Girlfriend.
The wife.

 
 

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