just to avoid confusions, there are actually no FAR or NEAR switches, just OUTER and INNER. But the manual calls it far/near.
I assume your suggestion is - if set on outer, it tunes on inner automatically when it is supposed to do so?
Also, what is this "rotary 2-4-6-8" about? There is a rotary to select "regions" like 1-1, 1-2, 2-1 and so on