I have yet to see the radios work on VHF ham , however there 70CM is good, also the radio power and RF safety calculations leave a lot to be desired.
I have a FT897d. full HF to UHF very low power to 100 watts on some bands. however its a soft radio easy to damage.,, the PRC's are hard to program as there based on UV50 and UV58 radio chipsets , menus area same and you must do a large flowchart to make a repeater lock , or even setup CTCSS tone
just my testing , I have yet to test the PRC117 , I did a review on 152, I was not at all impressed with it.