I think so; the Yahoo UV-5R group was very helpful and broke down what I needed to do. Manual repeater entry is a PITA on the UV-5R, but the CHIRP S/W seems easy enough to set up. Of course, I'm not quite sure what the best repeaters are - all I know is who operates them and where they are by city. I probably have about 50 entered of the 128 total slots available.