When I was 13-years-old, I made a small fortune babysitting. Every household was different: there was the one with the wall-sized tropical fish tank, the one with lots of sausage dogs, the one with all the goodies. But it was an item in one that fascinated me most - a citizens band radio. And what I was most interested in, were the nicknames - or handles - everyone went by, and the lingo. CB radio is a land mobile radio system, a system allowing short-distance person-to-person bidirectional voice communication between individuals, using two way radios operating on 40 channels near 27 MHz (11 m) in the high frequency (a.k.a. shortwave) band.