“…To reduce the volume and weight of waveguide filters, printed circuit inserts are often used on the E-plane/transverse plane of a waveguide [1][2][3][4]. For tuning the operating frequency, several mechanisms, such as magnetic tuning [5], varactor loaded frequency selective surface [6][7][8], micro-electromechanical system [9,10], E-plane varactor [11], optical tuning [12][13][14], liquid metal posts [15], are used. Following the requirements of multiband filters, several multiband waveguide filters have also been proposed [16][17][18][19][20].…”