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

Clint Jay cjaysharp at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 04:46:49 EST 2016


I have to say,  I'm hugely impressed by the Aeroflex 3413 I've bought and
Cobham's customer service response has so far been excellent but I suspect
it will be far too expensive for me to buy repair parts which is a shame.
On 13 Feb 2016 09:14, "Dave Brown" <tractorb at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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>
> 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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