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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 13 2012
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Trust set up to help family Family of second victim asked to contact SUCCESS Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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Peter Kong, the president of the Burnaby Amateur Radio Club, and Karla WakeÀeld, the vice president, check their equipment as they prepare to make a special shortwave link between the C.W. Parker carousel at Burnaby Village Museum and its sister carousel in Leavenworth, Kansas to mark their 100th anniversaries.
Ham radios to mark carousel’s 100th Burnaby Village to connect with operators of sister carousel in Kansas this weekend Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Eric Stapleton is doing his best to connect fans of carousels and ham radios this weekend. A member of the Burnaby Historical Society and a director of the Burnaby Amateur Radio Club, Stapleton wanted to combine his two passions in marking the 100th
anniversary of the C.W. Parker Carousel No. 119 at Burnaby Village Museum. The result is an event that kicks off with the club operating outside the carousel at the museum this weekend, June 16 and 17, when members will talk to ham radio operators at the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the village’s carousel was built. Industry Canada has issued a special seven-character radio call sign for use only between June 15 and July 15. Canadian call signs, which
are used to identify individual radio operators or stations, are normally six characters long and start with VE or VA. The special call sign, CG7CWPC, adorns 2,000 collectible postcardsized QSL cards—which records an on-air connection between two ham radio operators—that will be sent out to operators around the world who talk to club members over the radio during the month-long event. “Carousel people are crazy, radio people are crazy, if you have a carousel person who’s a radio
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person, it’s like crazy times two,” said Stapleton with a laugh. Visitors to the museum this weekend will also have a chance to try out morse code, talk with radio operators over the air, and learn more about the range of equipment used by ham radio operators, from old technology to the latest in digital equipment. The club wants to raise awareness of their hobby, which will likely be called upon in the event of a major disaster. Please see HAM RADIO, A3
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Social services agency SUCCESS has set up a trust fund for the family of a Burnaby sushi restaurant owner murdered last month. Huong “Andy” Tran owned Royal Oak Sushi House where he and employee Chinh (Vivian) Diem Huynh were shot to death on May 27. The prime suspect in the homicides and the attempted murder of his former landlord is former security guard Angus Mitchell, who had both the restaurant and Huynh on a lengthy hit list before he was killed in a shootout with police in Maple Ridge on May 30. Tran, who was the sole breadwinner of the family, left behind his wife, Yuzhe Zhong, and two sons, aged two and ¿ve. Thomas Tam, CEO of SUCCESS, said in an interview that Zhong has not told her children what happened to their father.
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