There was a discussion about this years ago that I was a part of--hopefully some of those members are still around!
When I walk around some of the Franklin County Firehouses, some of them still have old plectron's displayed in a case as part of their historical collections. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what frequencies they used to be dispatched off of and what the station tone outs were?
Pick a frequency, it probably got used around here at one time or another before 800 MHz trunking showed up.
154.310 - Columbus
153.980 - Grandview
33.96 - Clinton Twp (might have been 33.94)
460.575 - Upper Arlington (and low band before that)
33.86 - Norwich Twp
33.80 - Perry Twp and Washington Twp
33.76 - Sharon Twp
154.160 - Westerville (and 155 something before that)
33.86 - Plain Twp
33.52 - Mifflin Twp
155.745 - Jefferson Twp
33.92 - Truro Twp & Whitehall
33.86 - Hamilton Twp
33.84 (I think) - Madison Twp
45.06 (I think) - Franklin Twp
33.84 - Jackson Twp, Pleasant Twp
33.86 - Prairie Twp
I'm not 100% sure on Madison Twp and Franklin Twp; they were fairly early converts to being dispatched by Columbus Fire. Prairie Twp was still using 33.86 until a few years ago for their firehouse alerting. I still have my old Perry Twp, Sharon Twp and Westerville Plectrons at home, for all the good they do me.
Columbus FD never used paging tones, but they did have an in-house PA system designed and built by city employees which used DTMF tones to open the station PA. Seriously degraded and noisy phone lines led to it's demise and replacement with MOSCAD in the late 90s or early 2000s, if I recall correctly.
Delaware County used 33.86, but their channel 2 was 33.82, which led to interesting skip from LAFD's Valley Division when the band was open. Union County used 154.250 (and still does for paging as far as I know), but the other surrounding counties used 33.86 as well.
Originally, Perry Twp and Washington Twp were dispatched by Perry Twp; the station tones were 910.0 and 992.0, activated with tuning forks (which I still have) held in front of the radio mike. I would have to see if I could find my old Franklin County Fire Chief's Association resource books to find other tones.