The Bird has landed!
Back home in the SW MO Ozarks after quite a road trip, would have made it about 3 hours quicker but we went and visited some friends in Mexico (Missouri, that is

).
Big thanks to linuxman for the dish and the crate, we did a slight modification or 2 before we headed out and it couldn't have worked better. The only times it even shivered was when we were passing through the sound barrier in either direction.
Fred and his family are a nice bunch of folks, his wife was EXTREMELY impressed with being able to see her porch again, if I had known how much she wanted that
before I made the deal I have a feeling there may have been some bargaining room.
His setup and parts collection has to be seen to be believed, just wow!

The BLSA setup is fascinating, I had never seen one in action before and one of these years, if I ever run out of projects or challenges, that might find it's way onto my want list.
Hoping to have the dish up and running by next spring, some trees will have to go to put it where I want to, and I'm not doing any lumberjacking till the leaves are gone. Here's a couple of pics of the Birdie at the new nest: