The preamp goes as close to the antenna as you can get, 2 to 3 feet.
No antenna will help get a signal from behind trees, it's like being in a shadow. Just like light, the signal will not "bend" around the tree to hit the antenna. Some of it will filter through the leaves and branches, but it's a hit or miss thing.
Your antenna might be in a hole in the leaves and get enough signal, or not. And then when the wind blows the leaves and limbs around it will be in the hole and out of the hole, etc.
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