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Sounds like you are on the right track. But, from where I sit you still need that neutral, if you don't have it. That panel allows the service to power everything and the generator to power everything below the transfer switch, which seems like a good setup if everything is wired correctly...

Also, the Generac switch you linked to only has a 125 Amp switch. So, you will not be able to run everything you would normally run on your 200 Amp service. The generator may be able to power everything but 125 is only 62.5% or 200. This means you may not be able to run your central AC and...

For your house you want 4 wires. Two hot, one neutral, one ground. In general the neutral and ground go to the same place but the neutral is designed to carry loads and the ground is not. Voltage between the two hot wires should be 220-240V and that will run 220V things. Voltage between...

The schematic can tell you if the Hz meter is reading from the output or if there is a sender device. Good luck finding anything local besides maybe a handheld VOM that does frequency. You can use a handheld VOM. You might find one of those plug in things like a KillAWatt...

I use something like this: https://www.amazon.com/KETOTEK-Voltmeter-AC80-300V-Frequency-45-0-65-0/dp/B01D891MHO You should just read the output to get accurate frequency. Some gens have a sender and a meter that reads the signal sent from the sender so you may not get an accurate reading from...

Put a meter that reads frequency on it. You can get cheap volt/frequency meters online that you can use to upgrade from the original.

The ground is more for people safety than for machine happiness.

I think you're mistaken about the importance of grounding. Worst case you won't be looking for a new generator. The generator might be looking for a new operator.

There goes the neighborhood, again.

In the field the military guys aren't usually powering residential panels. They usually wire gens to other military equipment that was designed and built to be powered by military gens. There are lengthy threads about proper grounding, which is important.

If you go that way you should probably wire one side of your panel and put all your loads (breakers) on that side. I would just wire it 220 and maybe try and put 1/2 the loads on one side of the panel and 1/2 the loads on the other side. I don't know if it is against code to jump a single...