Chirp works great and I use my kenwood cable to program the HT, even tho it came with its own cable (btw also works fine) my issues: display light doesnt come on all the time, setting up tone sql sucks big time, scanner speeds are not what is expected,EOT/ROGER flat out stupid, menu and functions are pretty cluttered up, monitor button is funky, display is poor quility, massive 2 sec delay on button press ptt keys sql... Likes ? Display color choices, battery life, led light, chinglish manual is awesome!. Yea its a $50 toy. I wouldn't rely on it if my life depended on it.
Btw chirp allows you to modify rx limits.