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 N ...
C-band is the obsolete designation given to the
radio frequencies 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, tr ...
s between 0.6 and 0.3 m) during the
cold war period. 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 opponent ...
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 requirementsVSAT Installation Manual with explanation of c-band polarization requirements for a VSAT
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Microwave bands