PULSAR RADIO-EMISSION

25 years after their discovery, pulsars still pose fundamental problems, in particular when the whole range of their periods P is considered: 1.56 ms less-than-or-equal-to P less-than-or-equal-to 5.09 s. This communication reviews my understanding of the pulsar magnetosphere, windzone, and (coherent) radio emission. New are details of the preferred magnetic structure, wind generation, and amplification of the emitted (pseudo) curvature radiation, the inferred brightness of which exceeds that of all other terrestrial and astrophysical sources by many orders of magnitude.