A large number of observations from the Parkes 64 m-diameter radio telescope , recorded with high time resolution , are publicly available .
We have re-processed all of the observations obtained during the first four years ( from 1997 to 2001 ) of the Parkes Multibeam receiver system in order to identify transient events and have built a database that records the 568,736,756 pulse candidates generated during this search .
We have discovered a new fast radio burst ( FRB ) , FRB 010305 , with a dispersion measure of 350 \pm 5 cm ^ { -3 } pc and explored why so few FRBs have been discovered in data prior to 2001 .
After accounting for the dispersion smearing across the channel bandwidth and the sky regions surveyed , the number of FRBs is found to be consistent with model predictions .
We also present five single pulse candidates from unknown sources , but with Galactic dispersion measures .
We extract a diverse range of sources from the database , which can be used , for example , as a training set of data for new software being developed to search for FRBs in the presence of radio frequency interference .