John Smith I wrote:
Like a high power hunting rifle, the energy that the photon is "shot"
from the antenna at guarantees a far and straight course of projection
(at vhf+ freqs)--as opposed to the lowly bb gun where the bb with low
energy is forced to fall to the forces of gravity (on in the photons
case, the earths magnetosphere) and come to earth much sooner?

Not exactly. All photons, regardless of energy content,
travel at the speed of light (modified by VF, of course).
Your above example assumes most of the difference in energy
level is associated with the square of different velocities.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com