Bob was a bit controversial, too. He pioneered, so to speak, the use of RG-6 for scanner use (blasphemy to some at the time). He also published an interesting article about converting a RS TV antenna into a Yagi by shortening some elements, and then mounting it vertically. I tried it and was somewhat disappointed in that it worked as a good scanner antenna but wasn't anywhere near as directional as I had hoped for.
I wrote him (MT) a few questions over the years, a comment or two, and answered one of his questions. He couldn't figure out what the tones/beeps were that he was hearing on VHF low band, around 30 MHz, so he published the question. Not long before that I had received an issue of Outdoor California magazine by the Cal Dept of Fish and Game that had an article about tracking wildlife via radio collar transmitters and mentioned that the range was x to y (a narrow range in the 31 to 32 MHz area as I recall). No big secret that wildlife transmitters were used, but nobody cared much about the freq range(s?) used and the freq he was hearing was in that range.
He also made the most blasphemous product claim that one could imagine - for back in those days. He described some of the scanner antennas that he was selling, as being able to handle low power ham transmissions (2w?). I proved him to be correct, at least for short transmissions on 2m.