If a beam is more powerful, and then it can send more channels; however, in the case of getting around 250 channels, the beams need to contact other satellites with different transmissions. Single satellite could not send all the channels in one beam. Consequently a Direct TV dish with triple LNB's that catches television signals right away from up to three various satellites. To receive better signals, you need to get transmissions from two different satellites. In space a signal must go on traveling hypothetically, and that is