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The interfaces between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. Antennas are essential components of all radio equipment.

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What is the difference between a radio antenna and a capacitor?

As I understand it, a mobile phone and a base station communicate by exchanging photons. The antenna is like one half of a capacitor. Pulsating voltage is applied to the conductive antenna and that ma …
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