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" <tract...@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" <jg...@zianet.com> > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" < > time-nuts@febo.com> > 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 >> <rich...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.