Southern Indiana - near Louisville KY

[audiogpyle]

I live at 4480 Greenville Georgetown Rd ZIP 47122-8881.
I live on the top if a hill 1/3 mile west of where the street address shows on Google satellite.
We are heavily wooded. I plan to mount two antenna atop a 52' tower (+ mast, so call it 60') at the crest of the hill.
I have a rotator.
This will be above all tree tops in the immediate area, but not above the highest hills between me and the nearest TV broadcast antenna installations.
One will be a yogi for a local 900mhz (I think) broadband provider, and the other will be for my new baby:
a Samsung UN55B6000 HDTV. I have also been given 2 analog TVs with digital converter boxes, one a Zenith and the other a Digital Stream. If these cause degradation in reception on the main set, I will disconnect them and remove the splitter from the coax (RG-6 is best right?).

Could you please recommend an antenna and a preamp?

I am a newbie to TV ownership (hard to believe I know) so any other helpful advice would be welcome.

thanks,,reg...

[audiogpyle]

Here are the coordinates for the proposed tower:
LAT 38 deg 20'17.51"
LON 86 deg 0'04.71"
,,REG...

[tigerbangs]

When I ran a TVFOOL.com scan of your location, I find that you are less than 10 miles from the Louisville transmitters, and those are the only TV stations that you can reasonably expect to get. You do not need to go to great lengths to get good TV reception from the Louisville stations, nor do you really need a 52' tower, but if you want to use it, you certainly can do so. Unless you want to DX (look for the sporadic reception of distant TV stations) you need a pretty simple VHF-high-band plus UHF antenna like a Winegard HD-7696P or an AntennaCraft HBU-44 aimed due east of your location: You can use your rotator if you have one, but all of the local TV stations lie in that same direction . Use a high-input preamplifier like a Winegard HDP-269, which won't overload on strong local TV signals, and split the signal after the preamplifier power inkector by using a high-quality 4-way 1 gHz or better coax splitter.