pre-amp installation

I just acquired a broadband pre-amp (we're in a rural area). Am I good if there's about 2 feet of coax from the antenna to the pre-amp? It's another 6 feet to the entry to the building. I'm powering the pre-amp using a bias-tee ... I generally have lightning arrestors on all antenna and...

Where would you place a pre amp on a 100 foot 50x2 BNC cable …. Closer to the scanner base or as close to the antenna as I can get? Thanks for your help

Have seen question and discussions which begin as questions about splitters and eventually evolve into discussions about pre-amps. Multi-port CATV amplifier's have been discussed, these can also perform the function of a splitter. They are extremely wide band and some are 1 antenna input, with...