The island used to host a Marconi wireless station and it still sees occasional amateur radio operators who use the callsign prefix CY9.
His club was one of three in New Jersey designated to operate a Marconi station on Saturday.
In another ten minutes the mast of a Marconi wireless station could be seen.
It was opened in 1955 as EUR Marconi but renamed to its present name on the opening of the new Marconi station.
However Slaby's radiograms were rejected by a Marconi station, because the licensing forbade it.
Marconi stations in the United Kingdom would be the first to be received internationally in France and later Newfoundland.
The property on which the old Marconi station sits, is referred to as Makai Ranch.
With the US Navy on its board, RCA then absorbed the former Marconi stations.
Broadcast radio at Morningside College first started with a "Marconi station" built in the 1910s by some physics students and only capable of sending Morse code signals.
The practical uses of the building were flag mast signalling, and a Marconi wireless station which has since been moved to St. John's International Airport.