"Wayne" wrote in message
...
"The antenna, like the eye, is a transformation device converting
electromagnetic
photons into circuit currents; but, unlike the eye, the antenna can also
convert energy
from a circuit into photons radiated into space. In simplest terms an
antenna converts
photons to currents or vice versa." Antennas, Second Edition, 1988, by
John
D. Kraus. Page 19.

IMHO, antennae do not radiate photons. and the misunderstanding arises from
the photons that are generated from electrons shifting to lower energy
orbits around
atoms.

In tha case of currents within antennae, the energy is the potential energy
brought
about by compressing electrons against each other, against their inherent
mutual repulsion,
and is a different mechanism than that which generates photons.