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Radio Frequency Bands Guide

The document describes various radio frequency bands and their typical uses. It lists the frequency range and abbreviation for several bands including extremely low frequency (ELF), super low frequency (SLF), ultra low frequency (ULF) and others up to terahertz or tremendously high frequency (THz or THF). It also provides some example uses within each band such as communication with submarines in ELF/SLF, navigation and time signals in ULF/VLF, and experimental medical imaging and ultrafast molecular dynamics in the THz band.

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Radio Frequency Bands Guide

The document describes various radio frequency bands and their typical uses. It lists the frequency range and abbreviation for several bands including extremely low frequency (ELF), super low frequency (SLF), ultra low frequency (ULF) and others up to terahertz or tremendously high frequency (THz or THF). It also provides some example uses within each band such as communication with submarines in ELF/SLF, navigation and time signals in ULF/VLF, and experimental medical imaging and ultrafast molecular dynamics in the THz band.

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Frequency and

Band name Abbreviation


Wavelength

3–30 Hz
Extremely low frequency ELF
100,000–
10,000 km

30–300 Hz
Super low frequency SLF
10,000–1,000 km

300–3,000 Hz
Ultra low frequency ULF
1,000–100 km

3–30 kHz
Very low frequency VLF
100–10 km

30–300 kHz
Low frequency LF
10–1 km

300–3,000 kHz
Medium frequency MF
1,000–100 m

3–30 MHz
High frequency HF
100–10 m

30–300 MHz
Very high frequency VHF
10–1 m

300–3,000 MHz
Ultra high frequency UHF
1–0.1 m

3–30 GHz
Super high frequency SHF
100–10 mm

30–300 GHz
Extremely high frequency EHF
10–1 mm

Terahertz or Tremen 300–3,000 GHz
dously high THz or THF
frequency 1–0.1 mm
Radar-frequency bands according to IEEE standard[10]

Band
Frequency range
designation

HF 0.003 to 0.03 GHz

VHF 0.03 to 0.3 GHz

UHF 0.3 to 1 GHz

L 1 to 2 GHz

S 2 to 4 GHz

C 4 to 8 GHz

X 8 to 12 GHz

Ku 12 to 18 GHz

K 18 to 27 GHz

Ka 27 to 40 GHz

V 40 to 75 GHz

W 75 to 110 GHz

mm or G 110 to 300 GHz


Example Uses

Communication with submarines

Communication with submarines

Submarine communication, communication within mines

Navigation, time signals, submarine communication, wireless heart


rate monitors, geophysics

Navigation, time signals, AM longwave broadcasting (Europe and


parts of Asia), RFID, amateur radio

AM (medium-wave) broadcasts, amateur radio, avalanche beacons

Shortwave broadcasts, citizens band radio, amateur radio and over-


the-horizon aviation communications, RFID, over-the-horizon
radar, automatic link establishment (ALE) / near-vertical incidence
skywave (NVIS) radio communications, marine and mobile radio
telephony

FM, television broadcasts, line-of-sight ground-to-aircraft and


aircraft-to-aircraft communications, land mobile and maritime
mobile communications, amateur radio, weather radio

Television broadcasts, microwave
oven, microwave devices/communications, radio astronomy, mobile
phones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee, GPS and two-way radios such as land
mobile, FRS and GMRS radios, amateur radio, satellite radio, Remote control
Systems, ADSB

Radio astronomy, microwave devices/communications, wireless LAN, DSRC, most


modern radars, communications satellites, cable and satellite television
broadcasting, DBS, amateur radio, satellite radio

Radio astronomy, high-frequency microwave radio relay, microwave remote


sensing, amateur radio, directed-energy weapon, millimeter wave scanner,
wireless LAN (802.11ad)

Experimental medical imaging to replace X-rays, ultrafast molecular


dynamics, condensed-matter physics, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy,
terahertz computing/communications, remote sensing
ands according to IEEE standard[10]

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