Was this a radio and 45 record player?

[wa2ise]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RADIO-PHONE-V...item415977857c

No affiliation. The auction title makes it sound like a radiotelephone, but deeper in he calls it a GRAMOPHONE. Aussie for record player I think. An RCA 6XY-5A radio and record player. Looks like you were to insert the record into a slot on the front. The mechanism looks to be messed up on this one though.

[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.

[David Roper]

The seller must have meant "phono". Interesting little player, kind of an RCA take on the old Philco 'Bing Crosby' model.

[dieseljeep]

I didn't think RCA made a combination radio-phono version of the Slide-o-matic.

[Electronic M]

The term gramophone was used in America as a name for phonographs, but it was mainly used in the time of 100% mechanical phonos (ie. pre 1930s).

I've seen that type of RCA minus the radio and amp at Webs anti-Q mall several years ago, unfortunatly it was gone the last time I went there (and that time I wanted to buy it ).

It reminds me of the Philco Bing Crosby set I have.

Tom C.

[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.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

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.
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),

Australian AM is on the same band as the American AM band, 530 to 1700 KHz, so their radios work well in the USA, after taking care of the powerline voltage issue. Their radios almost always have power transformers, which are quite happy with 60Hz (I feed my Aussie set with 240VAC on a 15 amp circuit from the house's circuit breaker panel). The phono motor of that RCA would likely run at the wrong speed in Australia off 50Hz power, and it may get a little hot, as lower frequency power needs more turns of the winding vs 60Hz. To avoid core saturation.

Possibly an American packed up all his stuff to immigrate to Australia back in the 50's, and found that the phono section unusable, but kept it for the radio section.