
If you’re asking me about a band, I would say without hesitation that the Beatles are the best band of all time. Their music, along with the songs of Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, is the only music I can listen to repeatedly without ever getting bored. But wait—if you meant a different kind of band, like the frequency band used in weather surveillance radars, my answer is equally definitive: the S band, which is employed by the eight radars operated by the Institute of Meteorology of Cuba. If my skeptical reader thinks I’m being too categorical and suspects that my statement is hasty or biased, I encourage you to keep reading and draw your own conclusions from the evidence I’ll present. But first, let’s clarify some concepts before we delve into selecting the optimal radar operating band.
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