[BC] Gates Sta-Level

[Mark Durenberger]

If you served in the Armed Forces in France in the early 60's, you got your 
Armed Forces Radio from "AFN France".  10-watt FM repeaters were located at 
many military bases, and were fed via land-line, using French PT&T circuits.

On most of those lines there was a nice, annoying whine, riding along with 
the audio.

AFN France used Level-Devils at the repeater sites.  Whenever that infernal 
expander kicked in, you'd hear a rush of noise; most noticeably, that 
wonderful whine-o would jump up 10 db or so....

Mark Durenberger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Gates Sta-Level


> On 27 Dec 2005 at 17:59, khcs at juno.com wrote:
>
>> Steve-O asked:
>>
>> >Didn't those units have a really long release time...like 3 or 4
>> seconds?  Or am I thinking of something else?
>>
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> Yes, I believe it was something like that.  It was designed for 
>> gain-riding, not peak control.  That was the Level-Devil's job.
>
> The Level Devil was originally designed and sold for TV film chain audio.
> It was, as the name implies, a leveler with both and expansion and
> compression. There was a gate function that triggered the expander
> with IIRC up to 10 dB gain and it would compress about 20.
>
> It found its way to FM from TV. IMHO worthless for AM in most formats.
>
>
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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