Its frequency was around 17 kHz, which made its wavelength around 17,500 meters.
The bricks and tiles were saved for use in any future restoration of the spared building, and the Marconi facility in Belmar, New Jersey.ĭuring World War I, the original Marconi spark-gap transmitter was replaced with an Alexanderson alternator, the invention of the famous General Electric engineer, with an output power of 200 kilowatts and looking like an ordinary power station generator. All but one of the brick buildings were demolished around 2004 to make way for a storage locker facility. The antenna masts were demolished in 1952 to make room for what is now a small mall containing a Kmart, but the buildings on the other side of JFK Boulevard were spared. After the war, ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US assets, was transferred from the navy to RCA. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted from the site in 1918. The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. After the interruption of transatlantic telegraph cables by enemy action, the facility was confiscated by the United States Navy on April 7, 1917, to provide transatlantic communications during World War I. It was an early radio transmitter facility built in 1913 and operated by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. New Brunswick Marconi Station was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue just a few minutes from the New Brunswick border. Somerset housed one of the first Marconi Wireless Stations in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 22,083. Somerset is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, in the U.S. Marconi Wireless Station in Somerset, New Jersey in 1921
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