We present here the low-dispersion optical spectra of 295 QSO candidates. The great majority of the objects were originally selected as QSOs from the Parkes 2700 MHz radio survey, although we have also included spectra of several optically selected QSOs. A few of the QSO candidates are now better described as radio galaxies and BL Lac objects. This collection of spectra is not suitable for statistical studies unless due consideration is given to selection effects.

We present a catalogue of 668 major metre-wavelength radio events. The data was collected from dynamic spectra (taken at Dapto, N.S.W. until 1966 and at Culgoora, N.S.W. thereafter) by means of a radio spectrograph, which records the intensity of radio emission as a function of both frequency and time. A description of the major types of metre-wavelength phenomena can be found in Wild et al. (1963), Kundu (1965), Wild and Smerd (1972) and Kruger (1979), and details of the radio spectrograph in Sheridan (1963, 1967) and Labrum (1972).

The Culgoora circular array (CCA) is a 3-km-diameter ring of 96 reflectors operating at 80, 160 and 327 MHz. It has an effective collecting area of ~ 6000 m2 and achieves angular resolutions (full half-power beamwidths) of 3’.70, 1 ‘.85 and 0’.92 at the three operating frequencies. During the interval 1978-1981 we have used the CCA to make 80 and 160 MHz measurements of a comprehensive selection of radio sources which were detected during various complete surveys of clusters of galaxies (see Table 1). We have combined our low-frequency intensity measurements with other available higher-frequency flux data to compute accurate radio spectra. The 160 MHz contour maps for many of the cluster fields were used to find positions and angular sizes for the associated radio sources.