Changing Satellite Dish

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This is probably an old question but my search has failed to find it.
I have got fed up with my old Sky mini dish (I use Freesat from Sky on a Pace box) breaking up in bad weather so I have bought an Icecrypt 60cm with their Universal Quad LNB. I have mounted it so I don't have to take the old one down until I am up and running. I am using the same Satellite Finder as I did when I successfully set up the second hand mini dish but whatever I try I cannot get it to give any signal quality or lock.
By measuring the bars with a ruler the old system shows (still does):
Signal Strength 68%
Signal Quality 48%
Lock Indicator OK
Network ID 0002
Transport Stream 07d4

The new system shows:
Signal Strength 79%
Signal Quality blank
Lock Indicator Not Locked
Network ID 0002
Transport Stream 07d4

Any ideas what I have done wrong / should check?
 
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Would guess its found a satellite but not the one you want. I had the same problem and dish orientation was out my a small amount; minor tweak solved it.
 
I wondered about that but then thought the ID and Transport being correct meant I had the right one. I can't have another go until Tuesday but one thing that crossed my might was a good old full electrical restart - power down, disconnect everything, power up and see if everything is blank, power down, connect new system, power up and see what ID it then says - the theory being it had remembered this bit. Also I ordered a quad lnb and they initially delivered a single then replaced it, I may try the single to eliminate a faulty lnb.
 
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