Talk:Ka band

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The is for the veracity of the German "kurz" etymology in K band. See also Talk:K band. —Fleminra 02:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed Kurz as unsourced and the tag as well.--Isotope23 16:28, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * That "Kurtz" business is a bunch of baloney. The letters for the microwave bands derive from arbitrary letters of the alphabet that were assigned by the US Department of Defense, and a long time ago, their meanings were kept secret. Anyway, the letters that were used were L, S, C, X, and K, and then the old K band was divided into three parts, the Ku (K-under), the K, and the Ka (K-above) band. So, "Ku" doesn't have anything to do with
 * "kurtz", but rather with "K-under", and K is an arbitrary letter of the alphabet. In other words, it was a "code name".

This page is not self consistent! The single reference has a table (on page 10) that lists: ku 12.5-18 k 18-26.5 ka 26.5-40

I am going to remove the parts that do not agree with this (and lack citations).Nmh (talk) 05:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC) I made some minor ``fixes'', but the references are just random webpages. I will try to add more reliable sources later.Nmh (talk) 05:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree: "k" is arbitrary, "invented" during WW2 to avoid any hints for the enemy. Indeed the cited German source says K is for "kurz", but I learned the before mentioned theory in my Radar lectures, which makes much more sense. 212.77.163.111 (talk) 15:41, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Wrong Ku at least, difference with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_band — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.155.206.211 (talk) 02:10, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

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Broken links to references (2022-01-04)
References 5 and 6 broken. Not sure how broken references are handled so leaving a note here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by T.n.a. (talk • contribs) 15:41, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Satellite television for Ireland ?
And what about that satellite telvision on Eutelsat Ka-Sat 9A at 9.0°E: 20192 MHz L ?

See Lyngsat or other web lists.

Thanks. AXRL (talk) 17:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)


 * ok, found on Saorsat


 * --AXRL (talk) 18:01, 28 December 2022 (UTC)