I was watching Brandon Beck showing the weather map and I realized Mountain Home is shown in KY3's viewing area! So, it must not be that far away.
I grew up on the northern part of Springfield station's viewing area (Versailles, MO). We had this antenna that stuck up 20 feet above the house in order to pull them in. We could get KY3, KOLR10, and for ABC you had to turn the dial that rotated the antenna to pick up Columbia, MO.
I'm always amazed at people my age that watched Welcome Back Kotter, Green Acres, or Leave it to Beaver growing up! I'm always like "Man, those shows were before our time". They're like "Yeah, but we had cable with 30 channels and it was on the reruns".
Brad