{"id":4297,"date":"2022-08-13T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2022-08-13T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:50:28","slug":"mfj-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/mfj-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"MFJ To Celebrate 50th Anniversary&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MFJ Enterprises<\/strong>, an amateur radio electronics manufacturer and retailer, will celebrate 50 years in business this October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Martin Jue, K5FLU<\/strong>, founded the company in 1972 after building a CW filter kit that sold for less than $10. Since 1990 the company has made five acquisitions, including Hy-Gain and Cushcraft antennas. MFJ Customer Services and Public Relations Manager Richard Stubbs says the company continues to grow with the popularity of amateur radio and currently manufactures over 2 000 products. \u201cI\u2019ve been with the company for 28 years and the numbers are good,\u201d said Stubbs. \u201cAmateur radio continues to grow worldwide.\u201d<br><br>Martin Jue graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering and he earned a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He served as a professor of electrical engineering at Mississippi State University from 1972 until 1979, but abandoned his doctorate in 1977 because of MFJ\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SARL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFJ Enterprises, an amateur radio electronics manufacturer and retailer, will celebrate 50 years in business this October. Martin Jue, K5FLU, founded the company in 1972 after building a CW filter kit that sold for less than $10. Since 1990 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/mfj-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}