AES News    The Telefunken Radio Station at Sayville, Long
Island  Wireless Station, West Sayville, Long Island, ca. 1911,
from Sayville Library   From Lee Apgar: "During the United
State's pre World War I neutrality period, a powerful wireless
station at Sayville, Long Island owned by the Germans, was
suspected of sending coded messages regarding ship departures
from the eastern United States. Apgar's wireless recorder which
could record wireless signals onto wax cylinders and his
ampliphone circuit were the two instruments that would be used
to decipher messages being transmitted by the German station
owned by the Atlantic Communications Company. This was a
subordinate to the Telefunken Corporation, a brokerage business
firm in Germany. The station had to renew its license annually.
In 1914 the U.S. only granted it a temporary license; in case
the station violated the U.S.' neutrality the license could be
revoked quickly. The station was still allowed to transmit, but
U.S. Navy radio officials were brought