Radio Frequency Category

ABB	Range	Name	Frequency	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