Martin F. Jue is an American business personality, inventor and founder/owner of several companies, including MFJ Enterprises, Hy-Gain, Cushcraft,[2] Ameritron, Vectronics and others, all of which manufacture products for the amateur radio industry.
[3] Martin F. Jue was born in Vicksburg to a Chinese American family and whose own great-grandfather helped build the transcontinental railroad across America in the late 1860s.
[1] Jue is a 1966 graduate of Mississippi State University's Bagley College of Engineering, which in 2014 honored him as a Distinguished Fellow.
In October, 1972, Jue began manufacturing a CW filter kit in a room of the now-defunct Stark Hotel in Starkville, Mississippi.
[5] Over the next forty years, MFJ would grow to become the largest manufacturer of amateur radio products in the world,[4] and would garner numerous honors.