State steady-state carry power and power present during switching as separate limits. Cold switching removes or sufficiently blanks RF before the state changes; hot switching changes with RF present and can impose greater contact, voltage, current or semiconductor stress. Include frequency, CW or pulse waveform, peak and average level, duty, VSWR, reverse power and temperature.
Define break-before-make or make-before-break, RF ramp-down, blanking acknowledgement, command latency, mechanical or logic transition, debounce, RF amplitude and phase settling, receiver recovery and ramp-up. Switching time in a data sheet may use a threshold that is looser than the system's final tolerance.
Include control levels, supplies, driver current, latching pulse, protocol, address, state readback, interlock, power-up and fault state, cycle rate and life target. Acceptance should capture the complete transition at the real RF ports and retain control logs with the trace.