MFJ's Martin Jue, K5FLU answers questions on YouTube

Thanks for this excellent interview! Martin F. Jue is a fine Southern Gentleman just like I thought he was. My workbench and shack are both loaded with fine MFJ products I've used and abused for many years. I'm not afraid to take any of them apart and make repairs or modifications. They are all easy to work on and it's easy to get technical assistance on the phone when I need it. The bottom line for me is I can still get parts. I hope Mr. Jue stays in business for another 50 years.

73
Mike
K7RVX

 

It is not easy to start up a business and make it last. Congradulations to Martin for building a successful business.

 

Over the past 32 years I've bought a few MFJ products that had quality control issues. I just fixed the issues and rather easily.

I have bought many radio toys from them, a good number of items that were only being manufactured by them at the time.

I've also bought some very expensive toys from Palstar and also had QC issues.

 

MFJ has been decent with everything I have ever purchased from them:

941E Versa Tuner, 812B 2m/220 SWR-Power meter, (2) 9440 transceivers, the 10m portable antenna, the 40T QRP transmitter, (3) CWF-2 filters...2 of which I still use on a daily basis, and they are nearing 50 years old.

 

I met him at Dayton years ago. He knows his stuff and has done a lot for Mississippi.

 

I have two pieces of MFJ equipment, the 259 antenna analyzer and Ameritron ALS-600. The analyzer as worked good, the als-600 has been a pile of trouble, the finals only last about 3 months and I have resonant antennas and the mfj-986 tuner. Drive it with 20 watts and use the alc. It has been repaired twice and the finals are out again. Not going to have it repaired again.

 

I haves to thank you for the 259b analyzer it is excellent and the price is fair. Has gotten me out of a lot of trouble. w5kbm

 

I'd really like the inside scoop on what happened to MFJ's website. Sure, it was Web 1.0 but everything worked. Now the internets are littered with millions of broken links. I had thought it was just bad execution until one day I tried to log in to look at some old support tickets and login attempts failed. I emailed support to fix my login and they emailed back that everything was gone - my purchase history, support tickets and even my login - because of the website update. Who drops their customer table as part of a website makeover? I'm thinking MFJ suffered an unrecoverable back end catastrophe.