We're switching to Swissphone RE729s as our Minitor V's croak, which seems to happen at least weekly. Moto really dropped the ball with that one. So far the Swissphones are holding up very nicely...one of our FFs had a house fire back in 12/15, total loss, but during overhaul the following day we found his RE729 still talking despite a melted case. They use a single A rechargeable battery, and the belt clip is on the battery cover, so you don't have to pay Big M big bucks for a new case when somebody snags their pager and breaks the clip. Also multi-channel, event record, scan, and the other stuff Moto charges more for are standard on these, just program them for what you want. They advertise in Fire Chief magazine and will send you a pre-programmed unit to evaluate for 30 days, no obligation. With us that turned into 3 units & a couple of months with just a phone call, even though we're a small department. Great folks to deal with.
I don't know of any pagers that have CTCSS...it can interfere with the tone recognition and most systems interrupt it during tone-out phase.