Happy Citizen's Band Radio day! (10/4)

[YY1]

Is that a thing?

Did I just make that up?

 

[YY1]

OK, maybe not.

Jimmy Carter did it in 1978.

 

[NJRR]

Hey good buddy !!!!

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Here ya go for nostalgia purposes..

CD RADIO SLANG FROM A TO Z

• ACE – an important or well known CB radio operator
• Apple – a person who is addicted to the CB radio
• AF -Audio Frequency
• Afterburner – Linear amplifier
• ALERT – Affiliated League of Emergency Radio Teams
• All the good numbers – good luck and best wishes to all
• Alligator – shredded tread from the tires of an 18 wheeler truck
• Amigo – friend or good buddy
• ANL – Automatic noise limiter
• Ankle biter- a little kid
• Antenna Farm- a CB radio ase station with many antennas strung up in the air
• Antler Alley – an area known for deer crossings
• Appliance Operator – degrading term for a non-technical person who barely knows how to turn on their radio
• AM -Amplitude Modulation
• Ancient Mariner – someone who uses AM radio
• Baby Bear – a rookie police officer
• Backdoor – vehicle behind the one who is ahead of it.
• Backdoor closed – the rear of a convey with trucks stacked across the lanes to keep the Smokeys out
• Back em up – slow down or reduce speed
• Back off the hammer – slow down or reduce speed
• Backslide – return trip from a trucker’s run
• Bad scene – a crowded CB radio channel
• Ballet Dancer – a CB radio antenna that sways and bends in the wind
• Base Station – a CB radio installed at a fixed location such as a house
• Beast -a very good CB radio rig
• Beam – Directional Antenna
• Bean House Bull – trucker conversation carried on at a truck stop
• Bear Bait – a speeding car
• Bear Cage- police station or jail cell
• Bear Cave – police station
• Bearmobile – police car
• Bear Trap – stationary police car running a radar trap
• Bear in the air- police in their helicopter
• Bear – police officer
• Beat the bushes – driving ahead of the other truckers in an effort to draw the police out of hiding
• Beaver – good looking female
• Beaver Bear – female police officer
• Beaver Fever – missing the wife or girlfriend
• Beaver Palace – a club or bar known for loose female patrons
• Beaver Patrol – looking for a good looking woman to spend time with
• Big Charlie or Big Daddy – the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Big Mack – Mack truck
• Big Slab – freeway or highway
• Big 10-4- hearty agreement.
• Bit on the seat of the britches – pulled over and issued a speeding ticket
• Black and White – police car
• Black Ice – patch of iced over blacktop road
• Bleeding/Bleedover – strong signals from a base station on another channel that interferes with another channel’s reception
• Blew my doors off – car passed by at high speed
• Blue Slip- speeding ticket
• Boast Toastie – CB expert
• Boat Anchor – an old, broken radio that can no longer be repaired
• Bodacious- Awesome
• Boy Scouts – State Police
• Box -Tractor Trailer
• Break (or breaker, break for) – request to use the channel
• Breaking Up – CB radio reception is poor
• Breaking the “˜ol needle – very strong CB radio signal
• Bring it back – answer the question that was posed
• Brown paper bag – unmarked Police car
• Bubble gum machine- police car with flashing lights
• Bucket Mouth – obnoxious radio operator or someone who cusses a lot on the air
• Bug Out – signing off or leaving the radio channel
• Bumper Lane – the left most passing lane
• Button Pusher – another CB radio operator who is trying to breakup your communication with another station by keying the microphone
• Camera -police radar
• Candy Man – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Casa – house
• Cash Register – toll booth
• Catch you on the flip-flop – will talk to you on my return trip
• Channel 25 – the telephone
• Charlie – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Chew and choke – Restaurant or truck stop eatery
• Checking My Eyelinds For Pin Holes – I am tired or sleepy
• Check the seatcovers – look at that passengers in the passing car
• Chicken Coup – weigh station
• Chicken Coup is Clean – weigh station is closed.
• Chicken Inspector – weigh station inspector
• Chopped Top- a very short antenna
• Christmas Card – speeding ticket
• Chrome Dome – a mobile radio with a dome antenna on top of the car
• Clean Cat – a unmodified CB radio
• Clean Shot – the road ahead is free of obstructions, construction, and police
• Cleaner channel – CB radio channel with less traffic on it
• Clear – Final transmission “This is 505 and I’m clear”
• Clear after you – you are ending transmission after the other person finishes signing off
• Coffee Bean – Waiter or waitress
• Cold Rig – 18-wheeler pulling a refrigerated trailer
• Collect Call – call for a specific CB radio operator
• Colorado Kool Aid – beer
• Come again – repeat your last transmission
• Come Back – answer my call
• Comic Book -truckers log book
• Coming in Loud ‘n Proud – loud and clear signal
• Concrete Blonde – prostitute
• Convoy – 2 or more vehicles traveling the same route in a row
• Cooking – driving
• Cooking Good – reached desired speed.
• Copy – receiving a message
• Copying the mail – listening to the communications on the channel
• County Mountie – county police or sheriff
• Covered Up – transmission was blocked by interference
• Crack ’em Up – traffic accident
• Cradle Baby – radio operator who is afraid to ask someone to stand by
• Cup of Mud – cup of coffee
• Cut Out – leaving the channel
• Cut Some Z’s – get some sleep
• Cut The Coax – turn off the radio
• Daddy-O – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Dead Pedal – slow moving car or truck
• Dead Key – keying the mike without talking
• Decoy – empty or unmanned police car
• Diesel Digit – cchannel 19
• Diesel Juice – truck fuel
• Dime Channel – channel 10
• Dirty Side – Eastern Seaboard
• Dixie Cup- female operator with southern accent
• Doing the Five-Five- traveling at 55mph
• Doin’ it to it – Full speed
• Doing our thing in the left-hand lane – full speed in the passing or left-hand lane
• Do it to me – answer back
• Do you copy? – Do you understand?
• Don’t Tense – calm down
• Don’t Feed The Bears – don’t get a ticket
• Double key – two radio operators talking at the same time
• Double L – telephone call
• Double Nickel – 55mph (the speed limit during the 1970’s CB radio craze)
• Down “˜n Out or Down and gone – signing off
• Down and on the side – through talking but will continue listening
• Drag Your Feet – wait a few seconds before transmitting to see if someone else wants to break in
• Dream Weaver – sleepy driver who is weaving across the lanes
• Dress For Sale – prostitute or dressed like a prostitute
• Drop Out – fading signal
• Drop Stop Destination – where freight will be dropped off
• Drop the Hammer – drive fast
• Dropped it off the shoulder – ran off the shoulder of the road
• Dusted your britches – keyed up at the same time
• Dusted my britches – passed me very fast
• Dusted Your Ears- transmission interrupted
• DX – Long Distance
• Eager beaver – anxious young woman
• Ears ON – CB radio turned ON
• Eights or Eighty-eights – love and kisses
• Eights and other good numbers – love and kisses, and best wishes
• Eighty-eight’s around the house – good luck and best wishes to you and yours
• Eyeball- Personal meeting
• Everybody must be walking the dog – all channels are busy
• Evil Knievel – motorcycle policeman
• Fake brake – driver riding with his foot on the brake
• Fat load – overweight or big truck load
• Feed The Bears – paying a speeding fine
• Fender bender – traffic accident
• Fifty Dollar Lane – passing lane
• First Sargent – wife
• Flag waver – highway repair crew
• Flaps down – slow down
• Flappers -ears
• Flip flop – return trip
• Flip-Flopping Bears – police reversing direction or turning around
• Flop it – turn around
• Flop box – motel or room in truck stop
• FM – Frequency Modulation
• Follow the stripes home – have a safe trip
• Footwarmer – Linear amplifier
• Forty weight – coffee
• Four Wheeler – cCar
• Four lane parking lot – highway with traffic backed up
• Four legged go-go dancers – ugly women
• Fox – pretty female
• Fox Charile Charlie – FCC
• Fox hunt – FCC hunting for illegal operators
• Fox jaws – Ffemale with nice voice, but not necessarily a body to match
• Free Ride – prostitute
• Freight Box – trailer for the truck
• Friendly Candy Company – FCC
• Front Door – the lead in a convoy
• Full of vitamins – running all out
• Full Bore – driving fast as you can
• Full Throttle – driving fast as the truck will let you
• Funny Candy Company – FCC
• Funny channels – channels that are outside the legal band
• Gallon – 1000 watts of power
• Garbage – too much small talk on a channel
• Gas Jockey – gas station attendant
• Gear – overnight bag or supplies
• Get horizontal – go to sleep
• Get Trucking – start driving
• Girlie Bear – female police officer
• Give me a shout – call me on the radio
• Glory Card – Class D License
• Go Breaker – OK to go ahead and break into the channel
• Go Ahead – your turn to talk or reply
• Go Juice – truck fuel
• Go to channel 41 – a joke to get someone off the radio (there is no channel 41)
• Going Horizontal – going to sleep
• Gone – leaving the channel
• Gone 10-7 – permanently dead
• Good Buddy – friend (modern day means homosexual)
• Goon Squad – persons who do not share the channel
• Got my shoes on – Switched the linear ON
• Got your ears on? – are you listening on this channel
• Got my eyeballs peeled – looking hard
• Got my foot in it – speeding up
• Go to 100 – go to the bathroom
• Green Stamps – cash money
• Green Stamp Collector – police with radar
• Green Stamp lane – passing lane
• Green Stamp Road – toll road.
• Grease monkey – mechanic
• Greasy Spoon – restaurant with bad food
• Ground Clouds – fFog
• Gypsy – trucker who drives for an independent company
• Hack – taxi cab
• Hag Feast – group of female CB radio operators on the channel
• Haircut palace – bridge or overpass with low clearance
• Hairpin – sharp curve
• Hamburger helper – Linear Amp
• Hammer – gas pedal
• Hammer Off – slow down
• Hammer Down – speed up
• Hang it in your ear – that was a stupid comment
• Handle – CB radio code name
• Hay Shaker – truck transporting a mobile home
• Heading for a hole – about to head into a low spot where radio transmission may not be possible
• Heater – Linear amplifier
• Hell bent for leather – driving fast
• Hiding in the grass – police parked on a median strip
• Hiding in the bushes, sitting under the leaves – hidden police car
• Highball – drive non-stop to the destination
• High Rise – large bridge or overpass
• Hippie Chippie – female hitchhiker
• Hip Pocket – glove box
• Hit the cobblestones – hit the road
• Hog – Harley Davidson
• Home Twenty – location of your home
• How tall are you? – How tall is your truck?
• Hundred mile coffee – very strong coffee
• Ice Box – Refrigerated trailer.
• Idiot Box – TV set
• In a short – soon
• In a short-short – very soon
• In the mud – noise on the channel
• In the Pokey with Smokey – arrested
• Jack – good friend
• Jack Rabbit – police officers
• Jam – deliberately interfere with another station.
• Japanese toy – CB
• Jargon – CB lingo
• Jaw Jacking – talking, talking needlessly
• Jewelry – lights on a rig
• Jingle – call on the telephone
• Johnny Law – police officer
• Juke Joint – small or out-of-the-way place to eat
• Jump Down – switch to a lower channel
• Jump Up – switch to a higher channel
• Keep “˜em Between the Ditches – have a safe trip
• Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down – drive safely
• Keep the wheels spinning – drive safely
• Keep your noise between the ditches and smokey out of your britches – drive carefully, lookout for police
• Keying the mike – activating the microphone without speaking
• Kicker – Linear amplifier
• Kiddie car – school bus
• Knock the stack out – speed up
• Knuckle Buster – fight
• Kojak – police officer
• Kojak with a Kodak – policeman with a radar
• Lady Bear – female police officer
• Lady Breaker – Ffemale CB operator asking for a break.
• Lame – broken down vehicle
• Land Line – telephone
• Land Yacht – mobile home or camper
• Lane Flipper – car or truck that keeps changing lanes
• Lane Lover – driver who will not get out of the lane
• Latrine Lips – radio operator who cusses
• Let the channel roll – it’s ok to break in and request use of the channel
• Legal Beagle – person who always follows the rules
• Lettuce – money
• Lights green, bring on the machine – road is clear of police and other slowdowns
• Linear – RF amplifier
• Little Bear – local police officer
• Little Beaver – daughter
• Little Bit – prostitute
• Little Brother – friend
• Local Bear – local police officer
• Local Yokel – small town police officer
• Log some Z’s – get some sleep
• Loot Limo – armored car
• M20 – place to meet
• Magic Mile – the end of a trip
• Mama – girlfriend or wife
• Mama Bear – female police officer
• Man in White – doctor
• Mashing the mike – keying the mike (usually without talking)
• Meatwagon – ambulance.
• Modulate – talk
• Modulating – talking
• Money Bus – armored truck
• Motion Lotion – fuel
• Motorcycle Mama – woman riding on a motorcycle
• Muck Truck – cement truck
• Nap Trap – hotel or other place to sleep
• Negative – no
• Negative Copy – did not hear
• Neon, Freon, Ion Jockey – truck driver with many lights on his rig
• Nightcrawlers – many police in the area
• Niner – channel 9
• Ninety Weight – alcohol
• Oil burner – diesel truck
• On the by or on the standby – listening but not talking.
• One foot on the floor, one hanging out the door, and she just won’t do no more – driving as fast as I can
• Other Half – girlfriend or wife
• Out – through transmitting
• Over – your turn to transmit
• Over modulation – talking so loud that audio is distorted
• Pack it in – ending transmission
• Pair of sevens – no contact or answer
• Papa Bear – state trooper with CB radio
• Paper hanger – police giving ticket
• Parking Lot – traffic jam
• Pavement Princess – prostitute
• Peanut butter in his ears – is not listening
• Pedal to the metal – drive fast
• Peeling Off – getting of the freeway
• Plain Wrapper – unmarked police car
• Play Dead – stand by
• Picture taking machine – radar
• Pit Stop – stop for a bathroom break
• Popcorn – hal
• Porcupine – cr with a lot of antennas on it
• Pounding the pavement – waking
• Press some sheets – slep
• Pull the hammer back – slow down
• Pull the plug – signoff and turn the radio off
• Put an eyeball on him – saw or see
• Put it on the floor and looking for some more – trying to drive as fast as possible
• QSL Card – Personalized postcard sent to confirm a conversation
• QSK – break
• QRM – nise or interference
• Q-R-Mary – nose or interference
• QSY – changing channels/frequency.
• QRT – signing off
• QRX – wait
• QSB – nise
• QSO – conversation
• QTH – location
• Quasar – female
• Radio Runt – child breaking in on a channel.
• Rain Locker – shower
• Rake the leaves – last vehicle in a convoy
• Ratchet-Jaw – non-stop talker
• REACT – Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Teams
• Rebound – return trip
• Red Lighted – pulled over by police
• REST – Radio Emergency Safety Teams
• RF – Radio Frequency
• Road Jockey – truck driver
• Road Ranger – police officer
• Rock – slang for crystal
• Rockin’ chair – car in the middle of a convoy
• Roger – O.K.
• Roller Skate – car
• Rolling – driving
• Rolling Bears – police officers driving
• Rugrats – children
• Rubberneckers – onlookers
• Running Barefoot – using a radio at the legal output
• Running on rags – driving a vehicle with little to no tread on the tires.
• Running Shotgun – driving partner
• San Quentin Jailbait – under age female hitch hiker
• Seatcover – good looking female
• Shaking the windows – loud and clear reception
• Shim – illegally amplified transmitter
• Shoot the breeze – casual conversation
• Shovelling coal – speeding up
• Show-off lane – passing lane
• Skip – atmospheric conditions that cause signals to travel much farther than they normally would
• Skippers – radio operators talking long distance
• Sidedoor – oassing lane
• Sitting in the saddle – middle truck in a convoy
• “S” Meter – meter on your radio which which indicates the signal strength
• Smokey – State Police
• Smokey Bear – State Police
• Smokey report – police location report
• Smokey Dozing – police sitting in a parked car
• Smokey’s thick – police are everywhere
• Smokey with a camera – police with radar
• Smokey with ears – policeman with CB radio in their car
• Somebody stepped on you – someone transmitted while you were talking
• Splatter – bleedover from another channel
• Squelch – control on radio which silences the speaker until a signal of a certain strength breaks through it
• Three’s and eights – signing off, best wishes
• Thin – very weak signal
• Twelves – I have company present
• Twenty – Location
• Two Stool beaver – very fat woman
• Uncle Charlie – FCC
• Walking on you – someone talking over you
• Wall-to-wall and treetop tall – strong, clear signal
• Wall-to-wall and ten feet tall – strong clear signal
• Warden – girlfriend or wife
• Watch the pavement – drive safely
• Water hole – truck stop
• Wear your bumper out – following too close
• Wearing socks – has linear amplifier
• What am I putting on you? – how strong is my signal
• What’s your twenty? – what is your location
• Whip – long cb antenna
• Who do you pull for? – who do you work for?
• Wooly Bear – female
• Z’s – Sleep

In addition to CB radio slang, CB radio operators used a series of “10 codes” similar to the codes used by emergency radio operators.

THE COMPLETE CB 10 CODES

• 10-1 Receiving Poorly
• 10-2 Receiving Well
• 10-3 Stop Transmitting
• 10-4 Ok, Message Received
• 10-5 Relay Message
• 10-6 Busy, Stand By
• 10-7 Out of Service, Leaving Air
• 10-8 In Service, subject to call
• 10-9 Repeat Message
• 10-10 Transmission Completed, Standing By
• 10-11 Talking too Rapidly
• 10-12 Visitors Present
• 10-13 Advise weather/road conditions
• 10-16 Make Pickup at…
• 10-17 Urgent Business
• 10-18 Anything for us?
• 10-19 Nothing for you, return to base
• 10-20 My Location is ……… or What’s your Location?
• 10-21 Call by Telephone
• 10-22 Report in Person too ……
• 10-23 Stand by
• 10-24 Completed last assignment
• 10-25 Can you Contact …….
• 10-26 Disregard Last Information/Cancel Last Message/Ignore
• 10-27 I am moving to Channel ……
• 10-28 Identify your station
• 10-29 Time is up for contact
• 10-30 Does not conform to FCC Rules
• 10-32 I will give you a radio check
• 10-33 Emergency Traffic at this station
• 10-34 Trouble at this station, help needed
• 10-35 Confidential Information
• 10-36 Correct Time is ………
• 10-38 Ambulance needed at ………
• 10-39 Your message delivered
• 10-41 Please tune to channel ……..
• 10-42 Traffic Accident at ……….
• 10-43 Traffic tie-up at ………
• 10-44 I have a message for you
• 10-45 All units within range please report
• 10-50 Break Channel
• 10-62 Unable to copy, use phone
• 10-62sl unable to copy on AM, use Sideband – Lower (not an official code)
• 10-62su unable to copy on AM, use Sideband – Upper (not an official code)
• 10-65 Awaiting your next message/assignment
• 10-67 All units comply
• 10-70 Fire at …….
• 10-73 Speed Trap at …………
• 10-75 You are causing interference
• 10-77 Negative Contact
• 10-84 My telephone number is ………
• 10-85 My address is ………..
• 10-91 Talk closer to the mike
• 10-92 Your transmitter is out of adjustment
• 10-93 Check my frequency on this channel
• 10-94 Please give me a long count
• 10-95 Transmit dead carrier for 5 sec.
• 10-99 Mission completed, all units secure
• 10-100 Need to take a break
• 10-200 Police needed at ……….

 

[kiwigtx]

Over here we say 4-10, which is a gauge of shot-gun.

And when the barrel is cut down, it becomes what is known in NZ as a Kea Pistol - for shooting annoying birdlife on a farm.

 

[Budnicks]