[time-nuts] Calibration procedures - what is normal?

[Dave Brown]

Cobham is a UK based defence and high end security supplier- originally 
formed (not too many years ago)  by their buying out of several other 
companies in their lines of business. More recently they have got into 
aerospace activities.  As you might expect, they supply some rather 
expensive and exotic stuff.  Purchase of Aeroflex seems like a step in a 
different direction but who knows?
DaveB, NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Gray" <jgray at zianet.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Calibration procedures - what is normal?


> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist
> <richard at karlquist.com> wrote:
>
>> I left Agilent just before the split, but I don't know
>> anyone there who liked that name.  Or the logo :-)
>
> Another recent name change (acquisition) that is even worse is
> Aeroflex to Cobham. I realize that Cobham is probably a family name
> that was used when their business was started eons ago, but geez, in
> all these years, they couldn't have come up with a better name for the
> company? Even when it went from IFR to Aeroflex, that wasn't a bad
> name at all.
>
> In the coming fiscal year, we'll be spending close to $100K to buy
> some Cobham (yuck!) service monitors (or communication analyzers as
> they like to call them). Going to P25, the venerable HP 8920A just
> doesn't cut it any more. As for the $100K, we're small potatoes. I was
> told that an unnamed customer recently bought hundreds of units. It's
> like that line "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're
> talking real money."
>
> Joe Gray
> W5JG
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