thanks for the info. the image of the big and small dishes was sort of how I am planning to plant the Free-To-Air dish. I've never heard of StarBrand before. I'll do more reading about it. The FTA system I'm looking at was found a Skyvision.com. It's a Pansat 2700A MPEG2 FTA reciever w/a 3 foot movable dish. Pick up a few hundred more channels. More is never enough. Two dishes will do. I'm not going to turn my yard into a smaller version of NRAO's Very Large Array dish farm near Socorro, New Mexico.
StarBand is a consumer-grade internet broadband service, although I use the term 'broadband' with some reservations. The SkyVista stuff is far better, but the gear's more expensive. Since bot hStarBand and SkyVista transmit as well as receive, it's a bigger pop for that kind of gear.
If all you're doing is receiving, check out the Andrew Corp type 100 and type 100 satellite dishes. Good stuff.