The wireless telegraph station in Sayville, New York was one of the most powerful in the world. Constructed by the German company Telefunken in 1912, it served as a transatlantic relay point for diplomatic messages and business communications.

Throughout the United States, amateur wireless enthusiasts were able to tune their home-made sets to the station’s nightly press dispatches on their home-made radio sets. It was capable of transmitting and receiving messages from anywhere in the world. Its signals could be heard by amateur radio operators across the United States. In fact, the station was so powerful that it could be heard from as far away as South Africa and Australia due to its powerful signal. All of this changed when one of those amateurs uncovered the station’s true purpose.

As a result of the Navy’s seizure of the station in 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities on the airwaves. This bill was created in response to the Navy’s actions and was designed to protect the Navy’s exclusive use of the airwaves. The bill would have also made it illegal for civilians to use wireless telegraphy, which was becoming increasingly popular.

The bill, however, was ultimately unsuccessful and was not passed. The bill was unsuccessful because it was seen as too restrictive and would have prevented the development of the radio system.

The Navy was ultimately forced to share the airwaves with civilians in order to enable the development of the modern radio system. This allowed civilian wireless activities to continue on the airwaves and allowed for the development of the modern radio system.

Moreover, we find, in 1915, quite a few Sayville High boys in a Sayville Boy Scout Troop including Cecil Danes, Theodore Jedlicka, Jr., Sewell Thornhill, John Edwards, Mortimer Brown, Leroy Flynn, Edmund Munsell, Fred Guldi, William Townsend and Cornellus DeRoo have all enrolled in a class.  They are taught how to build a wireless apparatus by First Class Electrician Dunkle, a US Government operator at the station!