Was this a radio and 45 record player?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Yes, it's both, a combo RCA Slot type 45 player with a radio, pretty hard to find too.

The Ferrite antenna is busted, the mechanism looks okay, that's just the way they look, not much to them and not great by any means, but rather clever in their design.

I have three of the 45 player only version of this, including a clear demonstrator model.

The ferrite loopstick itself looks OK. I think only one of the mountings is broken off, unless there is some further damage to the stick that I didn't see in the photo.

BTW, I think it's unusual for an American radio-phono unit like this one to show up in Australia. The way the power supply is set up (for 115 volts AC), I don't think it will work in the latter country, as Australia has 220 volt 50Hz power. A stepdown transformer would have to be used, and even then there are no guarantees that the phono motor will run at the correct speed on 50-Hz electricity. I'm not sure the radio would work in Australia either, since their AM broadcast band is probably different from ours here in north America and Canada. I see Australian radios on eBay occasionally with tuning dials that show the local stations for a given region of the country (not unlike Packard-Bell's "Stationized" radios in the US), and I have a jingle from Australian station 6KY that is part of a sampler package from PAMS of Dallas, Texas, a producer of commercial radio jingles. I'd provide a link to that 6KY jingle but I don't want to run afoul of the law, as these samplers are copyrighted by PAMS Productions.