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<ownershipDocument>
    <schemaVersion>X0201</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>
   <periodOfReport>2003-08-01</periodOfReport>
   <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>
    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000039020</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>FREQUENCY ELECTRONICS INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>FEI</issuerTradingSymbol>
   </issuer>
   <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001265921</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>MARTIRE LEONARD</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O FREQUENCY ELECTRONICS INC</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>55 CHARLES LINDBERGH BLVD</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>MITCHEL FIELD</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>11553</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
            <reportingOwnerRelationship>
         <isDirector>0</isDirector>
         <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
         <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
         <isOther>0</isOther>
         <officerTitle>Vice President, Marketing</officerTitle>
      </reportingOwnerRelationship>
   </reportingOwner>
 <derivativeTable>
   <derivativeTransaction>
      <securityTitle>
         <value>Incentive Stock Option</value>
      </securityTitle>
      <conversionOrExercisePrice>
         <value>9.575</value>
            <footnoteId id="F3"/>
      </conversionOrExercisePrice>
      <transactionDate>
         <value>2003-08-01</value>
      </transactionDate>
      <transactionCoding>
         <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
         <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
         <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
      </transactionCoding>
      <transactionAmounts>
         <transactionShares>
           <value>5000</value>
         </transactionShares>
         <transactionPricePerShare>
            <footnoteId id="F3"/>
         </transactionPricePerShare>
         <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
           <value>A</value>
         </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
      </transactionAmounts>
      <exerciseDate>
         <value>2004-08-01</value>
            <footnoteId id="F2"/>
      </exerciseDate>
      <expirationDate>
         <value>2013-07-31</value>
            <footnoteId id="F1"/>
      </expirationDate>
      <underlyingSecurity>
         <underlyingSecurityTitle>
           <value>Common Stock</value>
         </underlyingSecurityTitle>
         <underlyingSecurityShares>
           <value>5000</value>
         </underlyingSecurityShares>
      </underlyingSecurity>
      <postTransactionAmounts>
         <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
           <value>44500</value>
         </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
      </postTransactionAmounts>
      <ownershipNature>
         <directOrIndirectOwnership>
           <value>D</value>
         </directOrIndirectOwnership>
      </ownershipNature>
   </derivativeTransaction>
 </derivativeTable>
   <footnotes>
      <footnote id="F1"> On or about August 1, 2003, Frequency Electronics (the &quot;Company&quot;) issued to the Reporting Person an option to purchase 8,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $9.575. This option becomes exercisable on August 1, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2013. The Reporting Person inadvertently failed to timely file this Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership on Form 4.</footnote>

      <footnote id="F2"> Option grants are exercisable on a cumulative basis as to one-quarter of the total number of shares covered by the grant on each of the first, second, third and fourth anniversary dates of the date of option grant.</footnote>

      <footnote id="F3"> Options are granted at the market value of the Company's Common Stock on the date of grant.</footnote>
   </footnotes>
   <ownerSignature>
      <signatureName>Alan Miller by power of attorney</signatureName>
      <signatureDate>2003-10-24</signatureDate>
   </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

