On 3/27/2012 9:29 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Full disclosu I got my start in radio in about 1965 with an EICO
model something CB radio. Ham radio was available, but I was too lazy
to study for the license. CB was also cheaper and easier. Many years
later, I worked for several companies that manufactured or sold CB
radios in addition to their commercial radio products. I also
designed a CB paging system (that was never produced). When I owned
part of a land mobile radio shop, we also sold and serviced CB radios.
It's really difficult to work in commercial radio, and also avoid CB.
I don't see how you've made it this far, and missed all the CB
history.

While much of the CB lingo is fairly new and amazingly creative, some
of it is based on ham radio lingo, which is not so new or as creative.
Somehow, I think we missed a splendid opportunity to add our mark on
technical slang.

I think I've heard most of it, I just hadn't heard "pill". The short
time I was into the CB craze it was in a pretty rural part of northern
NY, so maybe that term hadn't made it there.

tom