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I feel the answers here have gotten too complex. The simple answer to OP's question is for his radio transmission example there is only 1-way propagation hence the inverse square law. For radar transmission it is 2-way propagation, hence the 1/R^4 as per the radar range equation. Note this is for primary radar, where the radar's transmitted signal is ...
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