Sunday, 1 January 2017

Television Broadcast Frequencies


Television Broadcast Frequencies

To the easiness of understanding we can classify television frequency spectrum in to two

1.      Terrestrial and Cable TV range of frequencies (CATV)

2.      Satellite /Microwave telecommunication Frequencies (Satellite TV)

To familiarise with the spectrum we can classify radio frequency spectrum as the figure shown below.










Table Explains the Abbreviations and range of frequencies  


Band
Nomenclature
Frequency
Wavelength
VLF
Very Low Frequency
3 - 30 kHz
100 - 10 km
LF
Low Frequency
30 - 300 kHz
10 - 1 km
MF
Medium Frequency
300 - 3000 kHz
1 km - 100 m
HF
High Frequency
3 - 30 MHz
100 - 10 m
VHF
Very High Frequency
30 - 300 MHz
10 - 1 m
UHF
Ultra High Frequency
300 - 3000 MHz
1 m - 10 cm
SHF
Super High Frequency
3 - 30 GHz
10 - 1 cm
EHF
Extremely High Frequency
30 - 300 GHz
1 cm - 1 mm

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