Abstract: A dual switch for coupling a waveguide microwave switch to a coaxial microwave switch. The waveguide microwave switch has a waveguide hollow member and a waveguide rotating section rotatably mounted about a rotational axis within the waveguide hollow member at one end. The coaxial microwave switch has a coaxial hollow member adjacent to the one end of the waveguide hollow member and a coaxial rotating section rotatably mounted within the coaxial hollow member about an axis coaxial with the rotational axis. The waveguide microwave switch is coupled to the coaxial microwave switch by at least one set of cooperating magnets fastened at a given radial distance from the rotational axis to the waveguide rotating section and the coaxial rotating section respectively, such that any rotation of the waveguide rotating section about the rotational axis will be followed by a corresponding rotation about the rotational axis of the coaxial rotating section.

Abstract: A quadrant driver is disclosed, for use to drive the rotor of a microwave switch at 90.degree. from one given input-output configuration to another given input-output configuration and vice verse. The driver comprises a magnet and bearing holder rotatably mounted inside a housing. The holder supports, on one side, a thin, high magnetic density magnet and, on the other side, a bearing operatively connected to the rotor of the microwave switch to rotate this rotor when the holder is itself rotated, the holder and magnet being rotated between two rest positions, each of the rest positions corresponding to one of the two configurations of the microwave switch. A pair of coils are mounted concentric to mild steel cores mounted within the housing so that one of the cores faces with a given offset the magnet when the magnet is in one of its rest positions and the other core faces with a given offset the magnet when this magnet is in the other of its rest positions.