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An antenna is only used to receive or send a signal. A RF signal travels throughout any air medium independently of the existence or not of an antenna.

Of course you will need an antenna if you want to receive the signal (which has to have, by the way, more or less the same lenght of the wavelength of the RF signal), but the propagation of a electromagnetic wave doesn't need a physical support.

You can see an example with the radiotelescopes. They receive signals which come from the outer space without any physical support.

Electromagnetic waves (and RF signal is one kind of them) doesn't need any physical media to travel (they travel in vacuum too!)

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