Big Time Operators CB Club

ALERT	Affiliated League of Emergency Radio Teams
ANL	Automatic noise limiter
AM	Amplitude Modulation
Base Station	Radio installed at a fixed location
Beam	Directional Antenna
Bleedover	Strong signals from a station on another channel
CB	Citizen Band Radio
Clarifier	Found on SSB rigs, this control varies the receiver frequency to helptune the other station in
CW	Morse Code
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FM	Frequency Modulation
Handle	Name Used for identification of a person
Lowers	Radio channels below channel 1
LSB	Lower Sideband
Mayday	Distress call
Mobile	CB radio station in a car or truck
Modulation	Audio portion of your signal
Noise Blanker	Circuit to reduce receiver noise
Noise Limiter	Noise reduction circuit that reduces impulse type noise
PA	Public Address feature
PEP	Peak Envelope Power
PLL	Phase-Lock-Loop. The digital circuitry which determines your frequencies
REACT	Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Teams
REST	Radio Emergency Safety Teams
RF	Radio Frequency
RF Gain	Control on many CB radios that comes in handy when you have a station close by which is overloading your radios "Front-end". It de-sensitizes the incoming signal.
Skip	Atmospheric conditions that cause signals to travel much farther than they normally would. Typically signals are line-of-sight, but when the ionosphere is "charged" by the sun, signals that would normally pass through it are now reflected back to Earth, or "Skip" a large distance
S Meter	The meter on your radio which indicated incoming signal strength in "S" units
Slider	VFO, sometimes referred to clarifier
SSB	Single-Sideband
SWR	Standing Wave Ratio
Transceiver	Combination of Transmitter and Receiver in one Unit
TVI	Television Interference
Tx	Transmit
Uppers	Radio Channels above channel 40
USB	Upper Sideband
VFO	Variable Frequency Oscillator
Watt	RF power rating