Patent ID: 6975178

Claim:
Ruggedized, manually operated, physically stackable, radio set mountable, A/B antenna switch apparatus comprising the combination of: a fist-sized metallic housing having a hollow interior portion, a housing lengthwise axis-disposed first housing wall-traversing male coaxial connection signal port, a housing lengthwise axis-disposed second housing wall-traversing female coaxial connection signal port, a housing radial axis-disposed third housing wall-traversing female coaxial signal port and a housing radial axis-disposed, detented, housing wall-traversing rotatable switch actuation member having accidental switching protection; a plurality of electrical switch contact structures located within said fist-sized metallic housing hollow interior portion and each received in physical and electrical connection with one of said housing-traversing coaxial connections, said electrical switch contact structures including one cantilevered contact structure movable into elective pressured electrical connection with either of two remainder of said electrical switch contact structures in response to a manually sourced combination of rotational and axial movement of said housing radial axis-disposed housing wall-traversing rotatable switch actuation member; each of said housing lengthwise axis-disposed first housing wall-traversing male coaxial connection signal port and said housing lengthwise axis-disposed second housing wall-traversing female coaxial connection signal port being coaxially received in recess within a surrounding housing threaded receptacle portion located at opposed lengthwise axis ends of said housing; and one of said lengthwise axis-disposed surrounding housing threaded receptacle portions being inclusive of externally disposed male threads and one of said lengthwise axis-disposed surrounding housing threaded receptacle portions being inclusive of internally disposed female threads of mating thread compatibility with said externally disposed male threads; said mating thread compatibility enabling lengthwise axis physical and electrically interconnected stacking of a plurality of said A/B antenna switch apparatus.