I grabbed a used DX350 and Black Widow DX250 to fiddle around with They both look nice and clean inside and appear to be all original, except for the DX250 having 2879s in it. I rigged up my test equipment as a station monitor switchable between the antenna and test load.
On a dummy load they both look great and show impressive (to me) numbers on my meters.
I adjust the deadkey to 50w for testing the 250 on high where it swings close to 300w PEP.
Then the 350 with a 65w carrier will swing…

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