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Hi Jamie, That is perfectly fine. It is possible for individuals or the institutes to actually set up and maintain their own EDEX server, that's why I asked. If you've only ever used ours that's completely fine. At this point though, there is definitely a lack of functionality which you have revealed. Like I said previously, according to our documentation we should support PIREP data, but using the simple script I sent shows the output of supported data from our server, and pirep is not listed. Unfortunately, I think this is a source code issue on our side, and for some reason it was either taken out, or left out (most likely not on purpose). Unfortunately, updating our edex to include this data may not be a trivial thing to do. It definitely is something that we want to address, but I'm not sure I can give you a timeline as to when it will be fixed. As far as your last question, apart from Universities hosting their own edex, I have heard of another server hosted by a company called AllisonHouse. I'm not familiar with them at all, but I know they exist. I believe access to their server costs money, but I'm not sure about details. I'm sorry I don't have better feedback for you. I can definitely let you know if we make any progress with being able to support PIREP data again through our EDEX. --Shay Carter Software Engineer II UCAR - Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FTX-514016 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.