The

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

C-band is the obsolete designation given to the

radio frequencies Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around . This is roughly between the upper ...

from 500 to 1000 MHz (equivalent to

wavelength In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. It is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same phase on the wave, such as two adjacent crests, tro ...

s between 0.6 and 0.3 m) during the

cold war period The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term ''cold war'' is used because there ...

. Since 1992 frequency allocations, allotment and assignments are in line to

NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement __NOTOC__ NATO Joint Civil/Military Frequency Agreement (NJFA) and is the universal NATO common civil/military treaty to regulate the military access to the radio frequency spectrum in the range of 14 kHz to 100 GHz in peacetime, during ...

(NJFA). However, in order to identify military radio spectrum requirements, e.g. for crises management planning, training,

electronic warfare Electronic warfare (EW) is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. The purpose of electronic warfare is to deny the opponen ...

activities, or in military operations, this system is still in use.

References

External links

The VSAT Installation Manual Video Presentation shows examples of the arrangement of the Feed for c-band polarization requirements

VSAT Installation Manual with explanation of c-band polarization requirements for a VSAT
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