So I tried connecting ear phones to my VX-8R this morning to no avail. Sound did not come through them. I tried this both with the remote mic and without it, but in both cases, the sound continued to come either from the speaker mic (when it was attached) or the radio speaker. I looked through the menu to see if there's something I need to do to enable this. Does anyone have any advice? I'm going to borrow someone else's ear buds just to see if it was a problem with mine, but I really don't think it was.