[CQ-Contest] "QRZ?" versus "W4ZV"

[Bob, N5RP]

Igor,

It was just "one" operator.
It was not a designated and authorized representative for all "Italian 
operators".

As for other operators being labelled "hotshots".
Well, it is a contest, and contests draw out competitive spirits,
and competitive spirits evoke interesting personalities that might 
otherwise be better contained.

Maybe we need an icing rule for contests.
Hockey fight, anyone?

N5RP
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At 11:53 11/1/2004, Igor Sokolov wrote:
>The way one gives his call sign is also important.
>The most unpleasant contact I had this weekend was with HS0/IK4MRH
>who was calling cq on 20m giving his call as "Hotel Sierra Zero slash
>Ay Key Four Am R Atch ". I called him and having got zone number from
>him asked him to give me his call phonetically. He  burst out in a
>lot of insulting words about stupid people asking him to repeat his
>call sign which he gives out in CLEAR ENGLISH and immediately started
>to call CQ with his voice recorder the very same way he did before.
>Well, he spoiled my mood indeed. I had much better opinion about
>Italian operators before I met this guy
>
>73, Igor UA9CDC