Just thought id ask this here,i was trying to look at a 20mhz sine wave on my tek 453 no matter what timebase it was on the waveform is way to squashed on the screen to have any chance to count the divisions between wave peaks,its a 50mhz bw scope,how do others manage it?.
Do you mean "squashed" from side to side, or "squashed "vertically?
If the former, do you mean too many cycles displayed, so the distance from each peak is too small to discern?
If that is the case, you need to go to a faster time/div setting.
Or, is the whole display squished up in the middle of the screen, with gaps either side?
This can be as simple as an incorrect setting of the horizontal controls, up to a real fault.
If "squashed" vertically, maybe the signal is so small that you can't fill the screen height with it.