• Country
• Australia

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Thom & Smith Pty. Ltd.(Tasma);Mascot, NSW

• Year
• 1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 165834

• • Brand: Tasma

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 8

• Valves / Tubes
• 6D6 EK2 6B7S_Aus 6A6 6G5 EL3 EL3 80

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 458 kHz; 3 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 7 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus 2 Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 200/220/240/260 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Homestead 440 - Thom & Smith Pty. Ltd.Tasma;

• Shape
• Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).

• Notes

• Has switched variable selectivity.

  See also Genalex model Period BC440.

• Price in first year of sale
• 42.00 Aus£

• Circuit diagram reference
• Australian Official Radio Service Manual Vol. I

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• - - Manufacturers Literature (Tasma Service Data, Drawing No. 241.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Australian Official Radio Service Manual AORSM (Volume 1, 1938, Page 278.)

• Author
• Model page created by Stuart Irwin. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 269 models, 142 with images and 155 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Thom & Smith Pty. Ltd.(Tasma);Mascot, NSW