AmanGMRS

Assuming you mean the RF919? If so, looking forward to it. I've never used a shortwave radio before, and was toying with the idea of getting this as a first due to the price and all the bands it can receive. Was waiting on some reviews before making the purchase.

New stock Midland MXT275 does have wideband set for the repeater channels.

H3 and 5G+ ftw in that group. I wanted to like the H8 but performance was pretty mediocre. If you want another cheaper radio for the collection and to take for camping/hiking type purposes where getting it wet may be an issue, the Baofeng UV9G is a good radio, BUT, I had issues with it with the stock or even extended Baofeng antenna, the audio would drop out whenever I would move slightly. However when I slapped on the Tidradio H3 antenna, it was money. Got me the same range as extended antenna in a smaller package to throw in a backpack.

I just scrolled the channels up (or down). So once I hit channel up or down past the last pre-programmed channels (1 or 30) it automatically jumps to the weather frequencies. This was pre-programming/out of the box.