Decimeter Waves

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Decimeter Waves

 

radio waves with a wavelength from 10 cm to 1 m, used in radio relay systems and radar.

Decimeter waves undergo little absorption on passing through the atmosphere; they are used therefore for communication with objects in space. Decimeter waves propagated because of scattering by tropospheric irregularities are used for communications on earth.

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