The sensitive radio surveys of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) were undertaken at 1.42, 2.45, 4.75, 8.55 GHz between 1988 and 1991 using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope (Haynes et al. 1986, 1991). In addition to these specific surveys, a part of the Parkes-MIT-NRAO (PMN) all-sky survey at 4.85 GHz by Wright et al. (1994) covered the field of the MCs.
The catalogues of the radio sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) at these five frequencies were published in Filipovic et al. (1995; hereafter Paper IV). An additional catalogue of the LMC sources at 2.30 GHz appears in Filipovic et al. (1996).
In this paper we analyse the five surveys of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) region and catalogue the discrete radio sources seen at these observing frequencies. We address issues related to the calibration of the surveys: source positional errors and the flux density calibration.
The astrophysical interpretation of sources found in the surveys will be presented in later papers. In Paper VI of this series (Filipovic et al. 1997, in prep.), we shall compare these radio surveys with the ROSAT All-Sky surveys and in Papers VII and VIII we shall attempt to classify all MCs sources and look into their nature and distribution throughout the MCs.