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Originally Posted by Jiggy
I have a Lifetime Ultra Receiver, just got it Sunday, hook it up and all chnls were working fine, when turned off at night and turned back ON next day i get nothing, did some kinda reset on my own and it came......then turned it off and back on again next day, now i get this message "Scrambled or Bad Channel"........
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Need more info re your setup. "Scrambled or Bad Channel" can mean what
Sadoun said, and it could just be that you tuned to channels that were FTA, but changed back to encrypted, which is common for some channels, however if ALL your channels are like that, I'd guess it is something else. "Scrambled or Bad Channel" however can also mean other things. I get it all the time on channels that aren't scrambled. It can mean that it is locking on the signal, but that the PIDs aren't correct, which can happen for a number of reasons, such as if your LO freq gets changed or something and it is locking on a different signal than it thinks it is. I assume that if you just got the receiver, that you haven't overloaded the memory yet, but if you've done a lot of blind search scans, and your # of transponders gets higher than the maximum number, all sorts of weird things happen to the memory, the settings get changed, and the symptoms you describe become common.
First check to see if the settings for the sat and channel you're trying to receive have changed, such as the LNBF TYPE, LO freqs, the DiseqC settings if you're using a switch, and the freq, SR and PIDs of the channels. I've seen all these things change when the memory gets overloaded. If they have changed, you can change them back and it will work for a while, but you'll probably have to eventually do a factory reset then go in and delete all but one of the transponders on most sats, but particularly on sats that you don't use, and after deleting the transponders on those, delete the sats as well. I think the max # of transponders is something like 1200, and the Ultra comes with nearly that many, so it doesn't take long to overload the memory. Mine started behaving strangely and losing settings, and I checked, and I was up to over 1500 transponders. After I deleted all unused transponders and satellites, I got down to about 500 and everything was working fine then.