As of mid-July 2009, the "virtual igate" WXSVR that injected the NWS alerts into the APRS Internet system to make the NWS feature work was shut down. A replacement server, AE5PL-WX, is now providing this service. Shapes and symbols for severe weather WARNINGs should appear on maps just as before. However, using the right-click "finger" function to retrieve the full text of NWS bulletins will require editing the two files UIview32.INI and UINWS.INI located in the main UIview program folder.
Shut down UIview. Locate the string FQDN=WxSvr.net in each file and replace it
with FQDN=wx.aprs-is.net . Restart UIview. Note that the volume of traffic provided by the new server is far, far less than the old one. AE5PL-WX only transmits WARNINGS (servere weather actually in progress) but not the ALERTS and WATCHES sent by the old server. As a result, you will never see the yellow ALERT areas and orange WATCH areas that formerly appeared on UIview maps; only the red WARNING shapes will appear.
