Stations silenced

Seymour transmitters shut down

Sarah Woodend Contributing Writer

THERE was silence on the FM dial Monday morning when five radio trans- mitters on Mount Seymour shut down.

Bob Mills, program director for CFOX, said the morning “wasn’t roo shiny” after the station lost its frequency at 7:40 a.m.

The station was off the air for about 90 minutes until the signal returned with partial power.

Listeners tuned into the FOX were treated to a French station, which Mills suspects was CBC,

Five Vancouver stations share the = 18-year-old antenna owned by Rogers Cable TV and located on Mount Seymour.

CFOX, CJJR, CKZZ all went off the air. CKKS- KISS was off the air until it switched to a back-up transmitter in Burnaby at around 8 am. CFMI was able to stay on che air because of a standby trans-

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Dan Roach, supervisor at SW) Davis Broadcast Technical Services, which provides technical support for the five radio stations, said the stations would: be working on reduced power for about two days, bur their signals wouldn't be significantly affected.

Gord Eno, program director for New Country on CIJR 93.7 FM, said the station experienced prob- lems during the worst time of the day causing delays in traffic and weather reports.

Suid Roach, “It has hap- pened before, but this was particularly bad because it happened at the most criti- cal time during ratings and breakfast time... .”

He said the shutdown occurred when 2 precau- tionary device sensed a transmitter problem and automatically shut down.

A team of Rogers’ engi- neers worked into Tuesday morning trying to fix the problem, bur to press time still weren’t sure what had caused the transmitter fail- ure.

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Pawn shop shut after police visit

Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter dangclo@usnews.com

CASH Converters is closed for husi- ness.

The pawn shop lecaied at 149 Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver City closed its doors last week after a visit from members of the North Vancouver RCMP burglary section.

Police were at the shop after receiving 3 burglary tip.

A sign in Cash Converters’ window this week states that, “We are closed for inventery and will re-open shortly sorry for the inconve- nience.”

North Vancouver City development. ser- vices manager Francis Caouette said the store does not have 2 1999 business licence.

Caouette said during their visit, the police noticed differences in serial numbers of store items compared with what way recorded in the store’s dealer's registry,

The store was then closed for a day for a complete store inventory,

It did not reopen.

Caouette said that in the wake of the police visit, the store’s owner, who was out of the country, cannot renew his business licence, but must re-apply.

The business licence application would require approval from North Vancouver City council members.

“Given what happened fast week we would be fooking at the application very carefully,” said Caouette.

North Vancouver RCMP Const. Blair Yorke said items appeared to be put up for sale in the store immediately instead of after a three-day cooling off period, as required by a bylaw.

Police allege that the serial numbers of items were inaccu- rately recorded so that Mounties had difficulty checking if some items were stolen,

“We went in and said, ‘What do you have here that you know is stolen?” and they (store staff) brought out a televi- sion,” said Yorke.

Yorke said the person that brought in the television was a “known B&E suspect.”

Yorke said the police seized property at the store that they believe is linked to three recent burglaries in North

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