[evlatests] Ka band

[Charles Kutz]

Q Band? It was a 70's Disco Band. :-)

It is listed in RF & Microwave Design Essentials by Ph.D. Matthew M. 
Radmanesh page 218 as Q band (mmw) 33-50 GHz.

Take a look at "The Radio Spectrum for Beginners"
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/radio/rf-spectrum.html

Wikipedia"
"A" band is the EU, NATO Us ECM Frequency designation for 0 to 0.25 GHz 
frequency range.

Waveguide frequency bands:
Q-Band 33-50 GHz
U band 40-60 GHz

IEEE also lists A-band as 0-0.25GHz and as "Old Bands" the Q-band is 
33-50 GHz, but the new band designation ignores Q, Ka, Ku divisions and 
L-band is 40-60 GHz.

A and U for our purposes may confuse some, but as confused as the rest 
of the world appears to be in this matter, I don't think that we will 
hurt many feelings doing what is effective for us.

Chuck

Bryan Butler wrote:
> interestingly, though, i also don't see Q-band anywhere.  i always 
> thought it was part of the "standard" nomenclature, but it appears not 
> to be so - should be V-band i guess.  somebody must know how or why 
> Q-band was chosen (just out of curiosity)?
> 
> 	-bryan
> 
> 
> Dan Mertely wrote:
>> I believe it has been called A-band since WW2,
>> or the early 1950's at the latest. sf:
>> http://www.radioing.com/eengineer/bands.html
>>
>>  -Mert
>>
>>
>> Bryan Butler wrote:
>>> can we please not start calling this A-band?
>>>
>>> i don't want to get into that habit.
>>>
>>>     -bryan
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken Sowinski wrote:
>>>> There is now an Aband maintenance script.  For lack of anything
>>>> better, the default frequencies are 33.0 and 33.05 GHz chosen to
>>>> be tunable using the direct path through the T303.
>>>>
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