Changing the name of the GRHub Network and the GRHub Blogspot Website

Change is not always a good thing. It may force us out of tired habits and impose better ones upon us, but it can also be stressful, costly and even destructive. What's important about change is how we anticipate it and react to it.

Change allows you to explore new things and learn from different experiences.

Please get to the point!  What will change and why is it necessary to change the name of the GRHub Network?

This is easy to answer.  

The GRHub Network (VOIP / RF Radio Link Network) was established on the 21 July 2021 in the Garden Route area.  Thereafter followed the GRHub Blogspot (Website) on the 1 August 2021 and finally the ZS Link Network (VOIP / RF Radio link Network in South Africa) on the 1 March 2022 .

It has become necessary to change the name of the GRHub Network and the name of the GRHub Blog Website firstly due to the rapid expansion of the linked networks in the Southern Cape Area and in South Africa and secondly it was the opinion of many that the name GRHub only enlist those living in the Garden Route Area while this is no more the situation.

We needed to change the following:

•     GRHub VOIP / RF Radio link Network in the Southern Cape to ZS Hub Network in the    Southern Cape.
•     GRHub Blog Website (World Wide) to the ZS Link Network Blog (World Wide). 
•     ZS Link Network VOIP / RF Radio link Network in South Africa  (No name change)

A WhatsApp poll unanimously showed that participating radio amateurs were in favor of the name changes listed beneath as from the 1 July 2024:

•     The GRHub Network will now be known as the ZS Hub Network. 
•     The GRHub Blog will now be known as the ZS Link Network Blog (Website).
•     As already mentioned there will be no name change for the ZS Link Network.

I never thought that the humble GRHUB Network would grow to what is today. I would once again like to invite clubs and radio amateurs to use and keep on using the ZS-LINK and GRHub Network if they so wish. The network is not a private, club only or special allocated network.  It is open for general use by any radio amateur.  Transmit, experiment, test etc. - let radio amateurs know you are active and on the network.  Start or join a QSO and make new friends.

Thanks and Appreciation:

Thank you to those who support and use the Network regularly.  Your support and comments are highly appreciated.

The network is alive and well thanks to radio amateurs who use the network and keep on adding nodes to the existing network. There are many other roll players that ensure that the network is operational and being extended to other areas of the country and even overseas.

I would like to thank all those radio amateurs that keep the network maintained and running even during load shedding periods.  Your unselfish participation in maintaining nodes, repeaters, links etc. is highly appreciated.  Remember you do it for Amateur Radio, the best hobby in the world!!

"The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel." - Dalai Lama.