The title is not accurate, but that's the shortest version of it.
What I need is to make an extension board to tap off the signal going into the oscilloscope and make it available for another tool - like logic analyzer. You know that logic analyzers often give false results when the signal is bad. Viewing the signal on an oscilloscope will show if there are problems that are hidden for the digital circuits. Yes, there are MSOs on the market but you won't buy a whole new instrument because you need one feature.
Because I don't quite understand impedance matching (which probably does not apply in this case) and high frequencies I'm asking for advice how I should do that. Let's assume that it'll be used only on oscilloscope with high impedance input (not 50ohm).
1. What should be the recommended cable length? Is very short cable going to be a problem (because I know there are cases that short cables can harm the signal)?
2. Will any coaxial cable do the job or it must have specific properties?
3. Let's say it's for digital signal. What kind of buffer should I use. Is some 74xxx schmitt trigger enough (does it have high enough impedance).
4. advices on the pcb - the buffer will probably put some disturbance in the signal how to minimize that.
5. Usually it'll be used with digital signals up to 10MHz, but I want to ask is it hard to make it work fairly well for higher frequencies - let's say 50MHz (the frequency of the digital signal, not bandwidth).