With 385 Figures and 58 Tables

Dr. Gabriel Vasilescu
Universit Pierre & Marie Curie
Laboratoire des Instruments et Syst mes d Ile de France (LISIF)
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Dedication

In memory of those magnificent and charming people, amateur radio operators in the late 1920s and early 1930s, who enthusiastically contributed, in...