THE LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION OF RADIO-SOURCES

We have used a sample of 263 Parkes half-Jansky flat-spectrum radio so urces to measure the spatial correlation function of radio galaxies an d radio-loud quasars on scales up to 1000 h(-1) Mpc. We do not detect any clustering in the sample. If any undetected clustering is describe d by a power-law spatial correlation function [xi(tau) = (tau/tau(0))( -1.8)], we can rule out clustering with scales tau(0) greater than or equal to 50 h(-1) Mpc at the 99.9% confidence level. We have also used the sample to test for the 'possible' large concentration of quasars in the direction of the microwave background dipole found by Shaver (1 987). There is no evidence for such a concentration in our data and we show that the earlier result was probably biased by the use of non-un iform image classifications.