Electronic rf switch

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION A POWER SOURCE, FIRST AND SECOND LOAD DEVICES, A TRANSMISSION LINE JUNCTION POINT CONNECTED TO SAID POWER SOURCE, FIRST AND SECOND TRANSMISSION LINES FOR CONNECTING THE JUNCTION POINT TO THE FIRST AND SECOND LOAD DEVICES, RESPECTIVELY, A FIRST STUB LINE CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST TRANSMISSION LINE AT A POINT AN ODD MULTIPLE INCLUDING UNITY OF A QUARTER WAVELENGTH FROM THE JUNCTION POINT, SAID FIRST STUB LINE CONTAINING IN SERIES A PLURALITY OF TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS EACH AN ODD MULTIPLE INCLUDING UNITY OF A QUARTER WAVELENGTH LONG, SAID FIRST STUB BEING IMPEDANCE MISMATCH TERMINATED AND SHUNTED AT EACH JUNCTION OF LINE PORTIONS BY AN IONIZABLE SWITCH DEVICE, A SECOND STUB LINE CONNECTED TO SAID SECOND TRANSMISSION LINE AT A POINT AN ODD MULTIPLE INCLUDING UNITY OF A QUARTER WAVELENGTH FROM THE JUNCTION POINT, SAID SECOND STUB LINE CONTAINING IN SERIES A PLURALITY OF TRANSMISSION LINE PORTIONS ONE BEING AN EVEN MULTIPLE INCLUDING TWO OF A QUARTER WAVELENGTH LONG, THE OTHERS BEING AN ODD MULTIPLE INCLUDING UNITY OF A QUARTER WAVELENGTH LONG, SAID SECOND STUB BEING IMPEDANCE MISMATCH TERMINATED AND SHUNTED AT EACH JUNCTION OF LINE PORTIONS BY AN IONIZABLE SWITCH DEVICE, AND MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE SEQUENTIAL IONIZATION OF SAID IONIZABLE SWITCH DEVICES IN PAIRS ONE IN EACH STUB BEGINNING WITH THE PAIR CLOSEST TO THE TERMINATION.