Well the various satellite TV product manufacturers have finially come out with various products which work together so you can view everything FTA on every satellite your dish can see using just one receiver and one big dish!
I have the following equipment...
12 ft. wire mesh dish (with small holes in mesh to get Ku).
36 volt 24"
actuator (positioner) to move big dish.
BSC621-2 C/Ku LNBF
Moteck V-BOX II - "diseqc to 36 volt" to control big dish movement.
Fortec Star
Mercury II "blind search" FTA receiver.
You need a big dish to get
C-band. The bigger, the better. But big dishes use a 36 volt actuator or positioner and these connections are not on most FTA receivers. The Moteck V-BOX II solves this problem by using diseqc commands from the receiver to operate a 36 volt big dish actuator (positioner).
Then traditional big dish "feed horns" have a 3 wire "polorizer" for H and V or "skew". Well there is no connection for this on most FTA receivers! But the BSC621-2 C/Ku LNBF not only solves this problem by using LNB's which use 13/18 volts for polarity (H/V), but it also has two LNB's - C and Ku.
Furthermore it has a universal Ku LNB which receives a wider range of Ku frequencies (10.7 to 12.75 GHz). And the C band LNB is "extended" to receive a wider range of frequencies (3.4 to 4.2 GHz).
What more could a guy ask for?
Then to top all this off, the Mercury II controls all this and has "blind search". I think with every satellite I searched, the Mercury II found transponder frequencies which were not listed on the internet.
Plus the Mercury II works pretty much bug free. (I installed the most recent software on my receiver when I got it recently).
So anyway I got all the above equipment which all works together and I now have 370 channels, plus found some neat radio channels.