I bought three receivers off eBay. The first two were used and very basic models (see my signature). The Samsung drove me nuts as I kept programming it based on Lyngsat information and THOUGHT I was doing everything right. This was my first receiver and my first attempt at DVB. Could not get decent signal locks and programming errors kept coming up. I was using a 10ft dish and it had not given me a problem when I had it hooked to the analog receiver. I thought for sure something was wrong with the receiver as both my C and Ku LNBs worked fine on the analog receiver.
Finally I stepped back and tried a different approach. Instead of going for the Ku stuff, and particularly G10R, I opted for a C band feed. Once I got the receiver programmed it worked. But the system was extremely touchy. So I got something I never needed for analog C and Ku bands in the previous 11 years of satellite viewing; a signal meter.
So back to G10R. I tried each of the transponders one by one instead of sticking with the first couple. Finally I got blip for a lock on one of the G10R Ku feeds. I bumped the dish back and forth using the analog receiver positioner and skew VERY carefully and finally got a lock on Ku. The signal meter was screaming at this point and with very careful touches of the EAST WEST buttons I could get the "sweet spot". It turns out this bird is VERY touch. Sometimes I get it, some times I don't. Once I got the finess to positioning the dish, other Ku birds and feeds were easy. So easy in fact I ran my receiver memory out of space. I then bought a second receiver, still very basic.
With this second receiver the programming and setup were a snap. I had this receiver running in about 15 minutes. My intentions were to set this up at my parents house. BIG MISTAKE. While I could finally get it to work, my parents setting the dish was never going to happen. Even if I put it on G10R and left the analog receiver off (so the dish would not move) any little wind storm messed up that plan.
I was able to keep re-discovering the channels for each section of the sky I wanted to watch. This got boring so I ordered a NEW modern receiver, complete with blind search, lots of memory, etc. I'd not used the dish in a couple weeks and simply unplugged the Samsung and added the new receiver. I could not get anything. Tried C-Band, tried Ku, nothing. So I started checking. Something apparently killed my LNBs because now I can't get a thing on Ku. C-Band works SOMETIMES on the analog side but there is something really messed up. At that time other more important things came up and TV became a back burner. Now I have time again so I'm back to experimenting. One thing I'm looking for is a particular TV show. Thus I'm now motivated and determined to get the new receiver working.