The Isle of Wight was the scene of many of Marconi's early experiments. In 1897 he set up an aerial and installed his wireless apparatus in the grounds of the Royal Needles Hotel, Alum Bay. The first successful communication using this station was between a hired ferry boat. 
This letter from Henry Jameson-Davis to Marconi discusses the organisation for future experiments, stating that George Kemp and Dr Erskine Murray would be present and the use of reflectors and a tapper at Madeira House.