Talk:Ka band

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The {{verify}} 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".