Electronic – My oscilloscope picks up 600kHz sine wave signal when connected to an open wire

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I don't have a lot of experience working with oscilloscope, it is strange to me that if I connect the scope with a wire and leave the other end of wire floating in the air, I would see a regular sine signal of frequency 600KHz.
I suspect this is because of the impedance of the oscilloscope, but adding a 50 ohm terminator doesn't fix the problem.enter image description here
Is that normal ? If it is not normal, how can I fix the problem?

Thank you very much

Best Answer

There's nothing to "fix". You are connecting your scope probe to an antenna, and the scope is displaying a resulting signal. If you didn't see it, that would mean your scope is brokent. I suppose you might wonder if you are really viewing a 600kHz sine, or an aliasing of a higher frequency, but that's a different issue.

If you want to not see such a signal, hook your oscilloscope up to something you actually want to measure.