Yaesu VX-7R modes (NFM vs. WFM)

I just discovered something that I don't understand. I've had the radio programmed for some time with all my local repeaters as well as some other stuff just for monitoring, and it has always worked well. Tonight I realized that my memories were all set up with the mode set to NFM (narrow FM). Since the 2m and 70cm Amateur bands are FM (wide FM - not narrowbanded), I thought, "why have I had this wrong all this time?" and proceeded to change them all to WFM. When set to WFM, I just get noise on nearly every frequency no matter how high I set the squelch level, and I don't seem to be able to hit even nearby repeaters. Changing them all back to NFM puts it back in working order.



Doesn't this seem backwards?

Yaesu VX-7R modes (NFM vs. WFM)