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==Unofficial use (e.g. CB radio)==

Ten-codes were adopted with enthusiasm by the [[Citizen's Band radio|Citizen's Band]] craze, first in the US, then shortly afterwards in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and elsewhere. The codes were extended and changed to reflect the sorts of things that CBers wanted to refer to, rather than law enforcement usage, etc. During the [[CB radio in the United Kingdom|height of the fad]] in the UK (around [[1980]]), new ten-codes were seemingly made up on the spot, used in the local area for a short time, then disappeared again.

==List of commonly used ten-codes==

The following is a sample of commonly used 10-codes, submitted for purposes of illustration. It is common for 10-codes to have numeric gaps between them.

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