I live SE of Spokane. Mica Peak is between my place and C'dA. Channel 4's tower on Mt. Spokane is a lot farther away from my place than any of the other station's towers. Apparently the digital signal is not nearly as strong as the analog signals were and don't carry as far or as well, and so sometimes Channel 4 breaks up on me.
The main local channels work fine on Dish, but I wish they also had the additional channels the stations now have. I can switch over to the additional channels, but it is a lot easier to just use the Dish signal, which is always perfect. Except in heavy weather or when wet snow settles in the dish like it did several times last winter. I have thought about rigging a heating grid on the back of my reflecting dish that I could plug in for a few minutes when there is a snow problem.
I suppose that in Sandpoint channel 4 would be about all you could get over the air. Looking at the maps, Mt. Spokane is pretty close to directly between Sandpoint and Tower Mountain. Do they have translator channels that "repeat" broadcast of the Spokane stations in Sandpoint? I see commercials about the translators, but have never been where they were, so I don't know exactly how they work.
I remember when KHQ put the first tower on Tower Mountain in the very late 1950's. Their former towers were on Moran Prairie, as were those of KREM and we didn't get very good reception at all. With the new tower, suddenly KHQ was the best signal around Spokane and the Spokane Valley. A few years later KREM also put up a new tower on Tower Mountain, as did most of the other transmitters. My guess is that KXLY can transmit to a larger area, since Mt. Spokane is a lot higher than Tower Mountain, but it is also my guess that locating the towers on Tower Mountain was a better business decision for those stations than going to Mt. Spokane, since the population centers are all around Tower Mountain.
Do you have a 440 Roadrunner? Those were fast cars with 383's, and would be a little lighter than the GTX models. I sure wish I had kept my muscle cars, including a Ram Air 67 GTO that used to turn 13's on street tires when we raced it at Deer Park many moons ago. But a guy offered me more than I thought it was worth and I sold it in 1972. Oh well!
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