got a 2M VHF set from VU2HMY

as a swl to i got a VHF base from VU2HMY and monitoring some frequencies and trying to learn the communication. presently monitoring on 145.500

getting ready to face my gate exam 2010

i got the hall ticket for my gate exam 2010, examination centre is VR college, collected all the gate material required and ready to start the preperation, i think 15 days of preperation wont help me but i want to try my level best to get nice rank in this exam, and also going to erext an antenna for HF TRANSRECIEVER so wating for that