Yes, all that good stuff... Joe did such a good job building his board, that we knew I'd probably destroy some stuff just removing the components for individual checks...I can tell you one thing, the impedance (resistance) to ground at the coax was about 3K instead of about 7k both polarities, after caps charged... as I measured on mine (Yeah, through 100' of coax, though)... I took several components loose, enough to check for breakdowns,... simply couldn't find any. I did question the #4 pad on the SMD, but as far as I could determine it's a floater, anyway. I was not about to pull mine off the mast and remove the IC to check it, however. Possibility remains that we received a defective replacement IC, I suppose.