Bands

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Frequency
Band ITU
Abbr and Example uses
name band
wavelength in air

Natural and man-made electromagnetic waves

< 3 Hz
sub-hertz subHz 0 (millihertz, microhertz, nanohertz) from earth,
> 100,000 km
ionosphere, sun, planets, etc[citation needed]

Extremely
3–30 Hz
low ELF 1 Communication with submarines
100,000 km – 10,000 km
frequency

Super low 30–300 Hz

SLF 2 Communication with submarines
frequency 10,000 km – 1000 km

Ultra low 300–3000 Hz

ULF 3 Communication within mines
frequency 1000 km – 100 km

Very low 3–30 kHz Submarine communication, avalanche beacons,

VLF 4
frequency 100 km – 10 km wireless heart rate monitors,geophysics

Low 30–300 kHz Navigation, time signals,

LF 5
frequency 10 km – 1 km AM longwave broadcasting, RFID

Medium 300–3000 kHz

MF 6 AM (medium-wave) broadcasts
frequency 1 km – 100 m

High 3–30 MHz Shortwave broadcasts, amateur radio and over-the-

HF 7
frequency 100 m – 10 m horizon aviation communications, RFID

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

Very high 30–300 MHz
VHF 8 aircraft and aircraft-to-aircraft communications. Land
frequency 10 m – 1 m
Mobile and Maritime Mobile communications
 Television broadcasts, microwave ovens, mobile
Ultra high 300–3000 MHz
UHF 9 phones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth,GPS and two-way
frequency 1 m – 100 mm
radios such as Land Mobile, FRS and GMRS radios

Super high 3–30 GHz

SHF 10 Microwave devices, wireless LAN, most modern radars
frequency 100 mm – 10 mm

Extremely
30–300 GHz Radio astronomy, high-frequency microwave radio
high EHF 11
10 mm – 1 mm relay, microwave remote sensing
frequency

Terahertz imaging – a potential replacement for X-rays

in some medical applications, ultrafast molecular
300–3,000 GHz
Terahertz THz 12 dynamics, condensed-matter physics, terahertz time-
1 mm – 100 μm
domain spectroscopy, terahertz
computing/communications, sub-mm remote sensing