"WShoots1" wrote in message
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I had the same thing when I first bought mine, seems kind of a strange
way
to design a mono radio.

I suspect only stereo chips are made these days.

Split audio can be useful, though, by monitoring one side with phones and
feeding the other side to a computer or recorder.

Bill, K5BY

It's only a mono chip in there. The two sides of the jack are simply
connected together. They do this because most people have or buy stereo
headphones, whereas mono headphones or earphones are rarely ever seen
anymore.