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kalee20 · 15th Nov 2017, 10:38 am

I've got a Philips Philetta radio, where the VHF/FM band is marked UKW (for ultra short waves). Short wave AM is KW. Medium wave is MW; long wave is LW so I guess the German happens to start with the same letters as the English!

I have seen on very old British sets LF for low-frequency; and MF for medium-frequency. So, sometime, we went from frequency to wavelength, and eventually (1980's?) back to frequency. I can well remember Radio 2 being announced as 1500m in the 1970's.

When did UHF become VHF... dunno! I guess it's similar to TV, when 405 line standard was introduced, it was High Definition; and 1080 line digital is also called High Definition. The terms 'High', 'Low', 'Long', 'Short', 'Ultra', 'Very', 'Super', 'Extra', are all relative after all...

15th Nov 2017, 10:38 am	#11
kalee20 Dekatron Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Lynton, N. Devon, UK. Posts: 7,088	Re: VHF or UHF? I've got a Philips Philetta radio, where the VHF/FM band is marked UKW (for ultra short waves). Short wave AM is KW. Medium wave is MW; long wave is LW so I guess the German happens to start with the same letters as the English! I have seen on very old British sets LF for low-frequency; and MF for medium-frequency. So, sometime, we went from frequency to wavelength, and eventually (1980's?) back to frequency. I can well remember Radio 2 being announced as 1500m in the 1970's. When did UHF become VHF... dunno! I guess it's similar to TV, when 405 line standard was introduced, it was High Definition; and 1080 line digital is also called High Definition. The terms 'High', 'Low', 'Long', 'Short', 'Ultra', 'Very', 'Super', 'Extra', are all relative after all...