Bands by Frequency

Band Name

Short

ITU Band

Frequency

Wavelength in Air

Example Uses

Tremendously Low Frequency TLF < 3 Hz <100,000 km  Natural and artificial electromagnetic noise
Extremely Low Frequency ELF 3 – 30 Hz 100,000 km – 10,000 km Communication with submarines
Super Low Frequency SLF 30 – 300 Hz  10,000 km – 1000 km Communication with submarines
Ultra Low Frequency ULF 300 – 3000 Hz 1000 km – 100 km Submarine communication, communication within mines
Very Low Frequency VLF 4 3 – 30 kHz  100 km – 10 km Navigation, Time signals, submarine communication, wireless heart rate monitors, geophysics
 Low Frequency LF 5 30 – 300 kHz 10 km – 1 km AM (medium wave) broadcasts,AM longwave broadcasting (Europe and parts of Asia) RFID,amateur radio
Medium Frequency MF  6 300 – 3000 kHz  1 km – 100 m AM (medium-wave) broadcasts, amateur radio, avalanche beacons
High Frequency HF  7 3 – 30 MHz 100 m – 10 m Shortwave broadcasts, citizen’s 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
Very High Frequency VHF  8 30 – 300 MHz  10 m – 1 m FM, television broadcasts and line-of-sight ground-to-aircraft and aircraft-to-aircraft communications, land mobile and maritime mobile communications, amateur radio, weather radio
Ultra High Frequency UHF  9 300 – 3000 MHz 1 m – 100 mm 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
Super High Frequency SHF 10 3 – 30 GHz 100 mm – 10 mm Radio astronomy, microwave devices / communications, wireless LAN, most modern radars, communication satellites, satellite television broadcasting, DBS, amateur radio
Extremely High Frequency EHF  11 30 – 300 GHz  10 mm – 1 mm Radio astronomy, high frequency microwave radio relay, microwave remote sensing, amateur radio, directed-energy weapon, millimeter wave scanner
Terahertz or Tremendously High Frequency THZ or THF 12 300 – 3000 GHz 1 mm – 100 µm Terahertz imaging (a potential replacement for X -rays in some medical applications), ultra fast molecular dynamics, condensed-matter physics, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, terahertz computing / communications, sub-mm remote sensing, amateur radio

Additional Resources

LTE, E-UTRAN, 3GPP Frequency Bands
700 MHz Band Plan
EU, NATO, US ECM Frequency Designations
Waveguide Frequency Bands
Radar Frequency Bands
ITU Radio Bands