  We report an Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) radio-continuum
observations of 26 planetary nebulae (PNe) at wavelengths of 3 and 6 cm. This
sample of 26 PNe were taken from the Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Halpha PNe (MASH)
catalogue and previous lists. We investigate radio detection quality including
measured and derived parameters for all detected or marginally detected PNe
from this combined sample. Some 11 objects from the observed sample have been
successfully detected and parametrized. Except for one, all detected PNe have
very low radio surface brightnesses. We use a statistical distance scale method
to calculate distances and ionised masses of the detected objects. Nebulae from
this sample are found to be large (>0.2 pc in diameter) and highly diluted
which indicates old age. For 21 PNe from this sample we list integrated Halpha
fluxes and interstellar extinction coefficients, either taken from the
literature or derived here from the Balmer decrement and radio to Halpha ratio
methods. Finally, our detected fraction of the MASH pilot sample is relatively
low compared to the non-MASH sub-sample. We conclude that future radio surveys
of the MASH sample must involve deeper observations with better uv coverage in
order to increase the fraction of detected objects and improve the quality of
the derived parameters.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics