| Abbreviation |
Wavelength range |
Descriptive name |
Frequency range |
Band name |
Uses |
| ELF |
100—10 Mm |
Decamegametre |
3—30 Hz |
Extremely low |
Communications with submarines, geophysics |
| SLF |
10—1 Mm |
Megametre |
30—300 Hz |
Super low |
Communications with submarines, geophysics |
| ULF |
1,000—100 km |
Hectokilometre |
300—3,000 Hz |
Ultra low |
Communications with submarines, through-the-Earth communications (in mines and caves) |
| VLF |
100—10 km |
Myriametre |
3—30 kHz |
Very low |
Navigation, time signals, communications with submarines, wireless heart rate monitors, geophysics |
| LF |
10—1 km |
Kilometre |
30—300 kHz |
Low |
Navigation, time signals, longwave broadcasting (Europe and parts of Asia), radio-frequency identification, amateur radio |
| MF |
1,000—100 m |
Hectometre |
300—3,000 kHz |
Medium |
Mediumwave broadcasts, amateur radio, avalanche beacons |
| HF |
100—10 m |
Decametre |
3—30 MHz |
High |
Shortwave broadcasts, citizens’ band radio, amateur radio and over-the-horizon aviation communications, radio-frequency identification, over-the-horizon radar, near vertical incidence skywave radio communications, marine and mobile radio telephony |
| VHF |
10—1 m |
Metre |
30—300 MHz |
Very high |
FM radio and television broadcasts, line-of-sight ground-to-aircraft and aircraft-to-aircraft communications, land and maritime mobile communications, amateur radio, weather radio |
| UHF |
1,000—100 mm |
Decimetre |
300—3,000 MHz |
Ultra high |
Television broadcasts, microwave oven, microwave communications, radio astronomy, mobile phones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, GPS, amateur radio |
| SHF |
100—10 mm |
Centimetre |
3—30 GHz |
Super high |
Radio astronomy, microwave communications, wireless LAN, most modern radars, satellite radio and television broadcasting, amateur radio |
| EHF |
10—1 mm |
Millimetre |
30—300 GHz |
Extremely high |
Radio astronomy, high-frequency microwave radio relay, microwave sensors, weather radars, amateur radio, medicine |
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