Yes it would be better than an unmodified SB920 for sensitivity & selectivity. It has 3 IF bandwidths, Wide, Narrow and Super Narrow. The latter has 4x150 kHz filters in line and is completely separate from the Wide and Narrow IF strip.

It does not have RDS. It depends what is more important, better DX performance or RDS.

There is only 1 FM aerial socket.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the info. I guess if the Denon can pull in more Dx than the 920 then the answers obvious. I suppose I would have to rely on FM list for IDs.

Lille is nicely up, as is the London area seemingly with London pirate Logic FM audible on 104.3. Lots of loud MCing over drum & bass beats.

A little earlier WDR 4 was in with a weak signal on 100.5 from Teutoburger Wald near Bielefeld.

Mostly short-range stuff here this morning. One log of interest was Brocken on 101.4 at about 7.30 am and traces of Teutoburger on 100.5. Still hasn't got going properly yet though.

Slight enhancement here with R2 Rowridge on 88.50 blasting in with R Devon 103.40 from North Hessary Tor and Heart 106.20 from Croydon heard clearly in mono.

Brocken noise-free on 101.4 :

Have been listening to Democracy Now and NPR All Things considered on 846khz. The announcement stated programmes are via WRN. My list of stations lists 846khz as a transmitter near Moscow but signal so strong I wonder if it is nearer to the UK? There once was an italian station on this channel.

Strange enough, I prefer the ST-S311 albeit only one aerial input... for the simple fact that you can ADD the FULL 8 character RDS station name whearas the ST-SB920 only gives you 5 characters to add a station name.

Also... (having owned BOTH tuners) I find that some stations have better reception on the 311 compared to the 920..which is bizarre.

The only modifications carried out are to the internal 'gain' pots...with NO further added 'narrow' filters'

I am currently using a Sony ST-S361 of which is 'narrowband' and has twin FM aerial sockets and an 'Attenuator' ...albeit only a 5 character 'manual' station name display...unless of course the station is strong enough to recieve it's 8 character RDS.

I personally find the ST-S361 BETTER (and more user friendly) than the 920....only with similar quality audio to the 920.

My ONLY flaw with the ST-S311 is the 'audio' quality is not as good as the 920 or 361.

I bought a Sony ST-S770ES from eBay a few days ago. I have only given it a brief test run so far but it has all the bells & whistles including twin FM aerial sockets, wide/narrow IF, and the ability to assign names to favourite preset stations. There is no RDS. I haven't tried adding presets yet. But this tuner is vey solidly built, with an elegant appearance, as you would expect from an ES range product.

It isn't as selective as the Denon TU-800L and the Denon also might have a slight edge in audio quality, with the Sony sounding a touch 'thinner' but it really is a very nice tuner. It seems to be one of the better Sony models.

It's been a struggle under all the QRM from SE England but there have been a couple of Germans heard this morning on the band: WDR 4 on 100.5 and B5 Aktuell on 106.9 from Grünten in southern Bavaria. It's hard work though!

Around 12.40 I was receiving a station on 105.0 that was playing Anita Ward's 'Ring My Bell' followed by DJ chatter and a competition/promotion, then an ID jingle of 'Uckfield FM'. I looked it up on FMLIST and it is 25 watts vertical! Very good going as my Triax is horizontal.

I am receiving BBC Cymru on 104.3, amazing given BBC York is on the same frequency and their TX is only 30 miles away give or take. My tuner is also picking up BBC Gael on 104.2, BBC Leicester 104.9 and Gem 106. As I type this Cymru has faded out and BBC York is slowly coming back through, still amazed though.

I was using an FM Omni directional antenna on the roof.

Also just had BBC Nottingham on 103.8 and a very weak signal from Smooth Radio Derby 101.4.

E.g. Brocken peaking up fair mono 101.4, Classic 21 87.6. And there was me thinking it was all over.

Luxembourg good mono 100.7 and similar levels from 88.9. Hopefully this will be an interesting overnight lift.

In my location, the tropo over the past few days has been pretty much hit & miss, although nothing spectacular. Usual French stations have good strength, low powered ones have been weak & so has Belgium. Nothing from Luxembourg or Germany, conditions not good enough for them here.

Are you getting anything on 100.7 yet sleeper? It's 2 bars and stable (perfect mono/hissy stereo) here as I type this.

Belgium pushing across Essex nicely with Studio Brussel playing in stereo 102.1

Not a lot of French stations currently

Had Luxembourg both last night and this morning on 100.7, albeit somewhat hissy mono, was strong enough to be in noisy stereo.
Also Sat evening I had Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon TXs in, the latter is over 730km from here.

3 element horizontal yagi in the loft, Funcube Dongle Pro+ and SDR-Radio V2 software.

(Best with the vertical was VRT Klara from Egem, Belgium)

There were reports of N Spain (Bilbao) as well but nothing here on that score. Need to get that yagi higher, and outside.

When I switched the tuner on at about 6.30 am Luxembourg was a good solid signal on 100.7. However as time went on it gradually deteriorated and it was really struggling by the time I left for work at 7.45. I think hr3 was in the background on 87.6 although Classic 21 was dominating.

After 1 am I was getting a good signal from hr3 on 89.3 last night.

Last night Radio5 693khz relay had an odd bleeping sound in the background, two beats per second. Same sound on about 10 freqs in the AM band. Took radio outside to eliminate possible wi-fi interference but it was still there!
Had a trawl through the HF band and it was found again in the 90m band. Is this the dread HAARP?

Is it this station by any chance ? http://www.radionorth.net/Podcasts/Listen_Again.html

There doesn't seem to be any programme schedule on their website, but they sometimes come in here pretty well during the evening. Could they be using NPR as a sustaining service ?

If you want some easy long distance MW try VOA on 1530 kHz between 8 and 9 in the evening. The signal comes from just off the coast of central Africa. Don't know the exact distance but its a long way!

It comes from São Tomé and Príncipe, a Portuguese speaking island just off the coast of Gabon, W. Africa. The transmitter is just south of São Tomé town and broadcasts at 600 KW. That's about 3,550 miles from the TX to London (3,768 miles from the TX to my house!)

Blimey- good shout. Picking it up here without the loop aerial- that's some catch and it's winning the battle the Gold station from Yorkshire.