It's been a bit since I've posted here and I thought I'd do a followup. The contraptions I built and others I purchased have been working great! It's so nice to be able to lower and raise the setup myself with nothing more than a 5/8 inch socket and cordless drill. Well, at least after undoing the 7 guy wires and removing the four very large nuts securing the tilting base plate. I am glad I relocated two of the guy wires from the center of the roof to the edge of the roof so all of them are reachable to disconnect/adjust without having to climb on the very steeply pitched roof especially if I have problems during winter. My wife feels better about that too!
SWR on the beam is about 1.2:1 and the same on the V58 above it. The guy wires have all the angles covered so no problems so far with up to 60 mph wind. The mourning doves do like to congregate on the horizontal elements and they are a healthy size around here. I wish they'd at least sit closer to the boom but they ignore my requests. I have not had any ice buildup on anything yet but I'm sure that's coming soon. The Yaesu rotor is chugging alone well too. I have a Palomar Engineer MC-1-3000 choke a few feet from where the coax connects to the antenna on both the beam and V58. They're a bit heavy but are located very close to the mast so then don't seem to cause any problems.
The Carl built amp is working great with the Anytone Q5N2, K-Po hand held power mic and 120 amp power supply. I also have a President Lincoln II+ connected to a KL203 but I rarely use it. I have a K-Po desk mic that I am not using much either. The Daiwa CN-901 meter is really helping me not blow stuff up/out again. Learning the importance of PEP vs average power was, well, helpful. 
Everything outside is well-grounded using three 8 foot ground rods (in addition to the main house ground rod), 4 and 6 gauge copper wire, bonding, connected to the main house ground, etc. i.e. all the stuff I learned the importance of on here about a year ago. I do still disconnect the coax when I know thunderstorms are in the area or likely.
I get good feedback on signal strength and more importantly, the clarity of my voice. It's not fuzzy, garbled, over-modulated etc. So nothing like it was when I was trying to use the KL503 amp.
I've had contacts all over North America on both AM and SSB and multiple ones to Europe on SSB. Still no luck to Australia though but that'll come when conditions and timing are right.
Given how much I like to fuss with things, at times it's hard to leave this setup alone. But really it is working as I hoped it would.
So I now have another project Mustang to tackle and can just use and enjoy the radio setup.
Big thanks again to all the kind folks here that helped me get this stuff going. I wrecked some nice gear getting here but much smarter people than me have done the same!
