a basic question about high frequency signal transmission
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These "free space loss" charts are based on isotropic antennas at each end. At the receiving end an isotropic antenna has an equivalent capture area of about one eighth of a square wavelength. This is what makes the graph show more loss at higher frequencies.
The electric and magnetic field of a plane wave are only related to the power and the impedance of free space. It is independent of frequency.
If you are going between two points on the earth the path gets very complex and frequency dependent because of the several modes of propagation. For ground wave the attenuation is less at lower frequencies. Sky waves going through the D ionospheric layer are attenuated less at higher frequencies. The reflection from the F layer is a low pass filter effect with a relative sharp cutoff.
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