Name: Paul Adrian P.
Delos Santos
Course: BS Electronics Engineering
Band Number Designation Frequency Range
2 Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)
3 Voice Frequency (VF)
4 Very Low Frequency (VLF)
5 Low Frequency (LF)
6 Medium Frequency (MF) 300 KHz - 3 MHz
7 High Frequency (HF)
8 Very High Frequency (VHF)
9 Ultra High Frequency (UHF) 300 MHz - 3 GHz
10 Super High Frequency (SHF)
Date: August 25, 2022
Homework 1
Use and Applications
Submarine communications, High tension cables – above
30 - 300 Hz
ground, underground, under water.
Submarine or mining communications, magnetic levitation
300Hz - 3 kHz
trains
Navigation, time signals, submarine communication,
3 - 30 kHz
wireless heart monitoring, Geophysics
Navigation, time signals, long wave AM broadcasting
30 - 300 KHz
(Europe and part of Asia), RFID, amateur radio
AM medium wave broadcasting, amateur radio, tremors,
snow avalanches, marine patrol, coast-to-sea
communications
Short wave broadcasting, amateur and civic radio, flight
communications beyond the horizon, RFID, radar
3 - 30 MHz
communication beyond the horizon, sky waves, mobile
marine communications
FM radio, television broadcasting, line of vision
communication - ground to aircraft or between aircrafts,
30 - 300 MHz
mobile land and marine communication, amateur radio,
weather radio
Instruments and communication, radio astronomy, cellular
devices, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, GPS, two-way FRS and
GMRS radio, and amateur radio.
Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max at high frequency (3GHz+),
3 - 30 GHz microwave devices and communication, modern
communications technologies.
 Radio astronomy, high frequency microwave relays, remote
11 Extremely High Frequency (EHF) 30 - 300 GHz sensing at microwave frequency, amateur radio, guided
energy weapons, millimeter wave scanner.
Terahertz frequency imaging – potential alternative to X-ray,
ultra-rapid molecular dynamics, solid state physics, terahertz
12 Infrared Light 300GHz - 3THz
space-time spectroscopy, terahertz computability and
communication, sub-millimetric sensing FIR

13 Infrared Light 3 - 30 THz Thermal infra-red, infra-red laser, LWIR

Optic fiber telecommunication, Signal amplifiers, night

14 Infrared Light 30 - 300 THz
vision instruments and eyeglasses.
Bacterial purification of drinking water, sewage, sterilization
15 Visible Light 300 THz - 3 PHz in medicine and the laboratory, sun beds, devices for drying
nail polish
Generally divided into 9 energy bands, including UVB
16 Ultraviolet light 3 - 30 PHz ,UVC, medium ultraviolet, distant ultraviolet and extreme
ultraviolet (10-315nm)

17 X-rays 30 PHz – 300 PHz Medical diagnosis, crystallography, solid state research

Medicine (radiotherapy), industry (sterilization and

18 Gamma rays 0.3 EHz - 3 EHz
disinfection) and the nuclear industry

Radiocarbon dating, and in the production of cosmogenic

19 Cosmic rays 3EHz – 30 EHz
nuclides

Source: https://www.tnuda.org.il/en/table-use-frequencies