[Premium-Rx] STC Marine 800 / Vigilant SR500

[fantelme2 at comcast.net]

Hi David, 


A bit of background history on the SR-500 and Vigilant. Unfortunately I don't access to any manuals or technical information. 



The SR-500 was manufactured in the mid 80's to early 90's by a small U.K. startup owned by, I believe, several former Racal employees. 


While there is some superficial resemblance to the Racal HF receivers of the time (RA1792 and 6792), it was aimed at the marine/commercial market rather than the high cost military market, and performance was appropriately scaled. 


Vigilant was bought by my employer at the time, Grinaker Electronics, Ltd (also known as Grinel ) of South Africa sometime in the 19851988 timeframe . 


Grinaker Electronics has also since gone through several consolidations, acquisitions, name changes etc in the interim so I am not sure where you will be able to locate a service manual for the SR-500 


I am not sure how many of the SR-500's were actually built or how long Vigilant existed after the timeframe above. 










-France K6QO/ZS6GO- 





----- Original Message -----
From: "David Schofield " <davesc50@ tiscali .co. uk > 
To: premium-rx at mailman. qth .net 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:43:14 AM 
Subject: [Premium-Rx] STC Marine 800 / Vigilant SR500 

Hi, 

Does anyone out there know anything / have any info on the STC Marine 
800 / Vigilant SR500 receiver. 
I've just acquired one, and although it hasn't arrived yet, I thought 
I'd try and track down some info on it. 

It may have been manufactured by ITT as well, but I can't find anything 
much about it anywhere on the net. 

http :// www . radiopics .com/Marine%20Receivers/Vigilant_%20SR500. htm 

I'm looking for any service info / user manual's Etc. 

Thanks as usual, 
Dave.S. 





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