  The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to survey at
1.4GHz, a small region (< 3 sq deg) overlapping with the 2dF Galaxy Redshift
Survey (Colless et al. 2001, MNRAS, 328, 1039). We surveyed with a varying
radio sensitivity, ranging from 1mJy - 20microJy (1 sigma). There are 365
2dFGRS sources with z > 0.001 lying within the surveyed region, of which 316
have reliable spectral classification. Following Sadler et al. 2002 (MNRAS,
329, 227), we visually classified 176 as AGN or early-type galaxies, and 140 as
star-forming galaxies. We derived radio flux density measurement or upperlimits
for each of the 365 2dFGRS sources. The fraction of radio detected 2dFGRS
star-forming galaxies increases from ~ 50% at ~ 0.7mJy up to ~ 60% at ~ 0.2mJy.
The mean redshift for the fraction of radio detected star-forming galaxies
increases with increasing radio detection sensitivity, while the mean redshift
is fairly constant for the AGN/early-type fraction. We found very similar radio
detection rates of 2dFGRS galaxies for both the AGN/early-type and star-forming
components. The radio detection rate increases approximately linearly with
respect to the rate of increase in radio detection sensitivity. We derived the
radio luminosity function for our sample and it was found to be consistent with
that of Sadler et al. 2002. We have also compared the total flux densities of
NVSS sources common to our survey, and we discuss strategies for a large-scale
radio survey of the 2dFGRS sample.
