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" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<[email protected]>
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
<[email protected]> 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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