Was this a radio and 45 record player?

[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.