Antenna whip question (mxta 26 whip replacement)

[GrouserPad]

Hello again gentleman. Radios are fun and I like to tinker, so I was thinking about pulling my stock mxta antenna and placing a straight whip on it and tuning it for 462.6000Mhz (this channel my family and I use most. My mind tells me the stock mxta antenna is great and tuned to 1.18 in the middle of the gmrs band which if fine for me. But I can't leave well enough alone and I had a spare steel whip from an old wilson trucker antena laying around and its rather long. I ground the base of it down a few thousandths and put it in place of the stock antenna. I cut about 1 1/8" inch off it to tune it with no reflect on my chosen channel. Is there any reason not to do this other than it being a couple feet taller, and more drag on the mount? My thought is without the coil shortening the antenna then this would create more db gain and actually be better performing? It's using my truck as the groundplane and its mounted fairly centered on the top of the cab. Just wanted your thoughts on the matter. My goal was to just eliminate the coil loading of the stock whip as shown below  

[OffRoaderX]

31 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

Is there any reason not to do this

In addition to the disadvantages you've already listed, the biggest reason not to do it is that you will never notice any improvement. 

[GrouserPad]

5 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

In addition to the disadvantages you've already listed, the biggest reason not to do it is that you will never notice any improvement. 

Is it not true that loading coils hamper an antennas performance, and in an ideal world one would want to get rid of the loading coils if you could stay resonante, which would cause less attenuation of your signal? Been a long time for me since i studied antenna theory.

[OffRoaderX]

20 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

Is it not true that loading coils hamper an antennas performance, and in an ideal world one would want to get rid of the loading coils if you could stay resonante, which would cause less attenuation of your signal? Been a long time for me since i studied antenna theory.

yes.. on paper and when measuring with precise instruments .. in the real world, using human ears, is very different..
Stop trying to over-complicate it and just enjoy using your radio.

[GrouserPad]

54 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

yes.. on paper and when measuring with precise instruments .. in the real world, using human ears, is very different..
Stop trying to over-complicate it and just enjoy using your radio.

 My apologies. I thought this forum was for TECHNICAL DISCUSSION.

 

But if anyone else is cool enough to add their thoughts i would be thrilled.

 

And to add to this thread, the main reason I was looking at removing the whip that came with my mxta26 is mainly because the loading coil catches my garage door and grabs abold of it, the smooth non coiled whip glides right under it. So theres that huge positive! And don't worry Randy, Im not "some people".

[OffRoaderX]

19 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

the main reason I was looking at removing the whip that came with my mxta26 is mainly because the loading coil catches my garage door and grabs abold

Probably should have mentioned that to begin with!

[GrouserPad]

16 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

Probably should have mentioned that to begin with!

Right! My bad. The loading coil is literally at the exact same height as the sharp edge of my garage door seal. Just my luck.

[WRTC928]

Technically, it should work just fine. As @OffRoaderX pointed out, you probably won't hear any difference unless you were right at the fringes of perception, in which case you might -- or not. The only real downside is that it's taller, and apparently you've already decided you can live with that.