As promised, here are the pics of my new satelitte antenna. Seems to work very well, signal I used to not be able to get during the day, it was very sporadic is now a solid yellow in NS, sometimes a light green. My estimate on gain is around 18 dbi, maybe more. It is a strong performer, and with the fairly stiff adjusting, it was much simpler to get it to stay pointed in one direction. It seels to vibrate slightly in the wind, but that doesnt seem to affect the signal much at all. The bas hasnt slid any, it is pretty sturdy. Its not nailed to my roof or anything, just sitting on there with its base ( a 2x4 and some 1x3's ) I used a protractor and measured the angle and placed the wavguide in the same position and angle as the original lnbf's and then slid it up and down along the wood to get the best signal.
http://www.forgottenfords.org/dish1.jpg
http://www.forgottenfords.org/dish2.jpg
http://www.forgottenfords.org/dish3.jpg
http://www.forgottenfords.org/dish4.jpg