Service equipment question....

[guitar_199]

Excellent! Reading that.... I got what I need to know!

Yeah, I had heard of "wrapping a lead around the coax.... like a "gimmick capacitance"... I just didn't think about it.

Good deal. Thanks!!!

No, my meaning is that there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO HAVE TO PROBE THE ACTUAL OUTPUT. Once that 27.??? signal is generated waaaay back at the mixer stage it WILL NOT CHANGE along the output path. As I stated above your counter will undoubtedly trigger before physical contact is made to the RF output. The output freq. at the coax jack will be the same at the output of the finals, back at the output of the driver stage, back at the output of the pre-driver stage and anywhere else after the final mixing stage. If you insist on monitoring the final output then use a pick-up coil or even a piece of insulated wire laid near the output.