RADIO SPECTRUM

ITU BAND BAND NAME ABBREVIATION FREQUENCY WAVELENGTH APPLICATION

Extremely Low Frequency

ELF

3 30Hz

100,000Km 10,000Km

Communication with submarines

Super Low Frequency

SLF

30 300Hz

10,000Km 1000Km

Communication with submarines

Ultra Low Frequency

ULF

300 3000Hz

100Km 100Km

Submarine communication, Communication within mines Submarine communication, Navigation, Time signals, Geophysics, Wireless heart rate monitors AM longwave broadcasting, Navigation, Time signals, Amateur radio, RFID (Radio-frequency identification) AM mediumwave broadcasting, Avalanche beacons, Amateur radio AM shortwave broadcasting, Marine and mobile radio technology, RFID, NVIS Radio communications, Over-the-horizon aviation communications, Over-thehorizon redar, Citizens' band radio, Amateur radio FM, Land mobile and Maritime mobile communications, Weather radio, Line-ofsight ground-to-aircraft and aircraft-to-aircraft communications, Television broadcasts, Amateur radio Television broadcasts, Microwave devices/communicatios, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Radio astronomy, Mobile phones, Wireless LAN, Amateur radio, FRS and GMRS radios, GPS and two-way radios such as land mobile Satellite television broadcasting, Communications satellites, DBS, Amateur Radio, Wireless LAN, Radio astronomy, Most modern radars, Microwave devices/communications Microwave remote sensing, High-frequency microwave radio relay, Directedenergy weapon, Radio astronomy, Millimeter wave scanner, Amateur radio Terahertz Imaging, Terahertz computing/communication, Amateur Radio, Ultrafast molecular dynamics, Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, Condensed-matter Physics, Sub-mm remote sensing

Very Low Frequency

VLF

3 30KHz

100Km 10Km

Low Frequency

LF

30 300KHz

10Km 1Km

Medium Frequency

MF

300 3000KHz

1Km 100m

High Frequency

HF

3 30MHz

100m 10m

Very High Frequency

VHF

30 300MHz

10m 1m

Ultra High Frequency

UHF

300 300MHz

1m 100mm

10

Super High Frequency

SHF

3 30GHz

100mm 10mm

11

Extremely High Frequency

EHF

30 300GHz

10mm 1mm

12

Tremendously High Frequency

THF

300 3000GHz

1mm 1m