chandler
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anyone know the long fire tone for franklin county ohio Columbus fire and ems pager tone code? its the one when they get a report of a fire or they go on a battalion would be great if someone knows it.
thanks.
thanks.
Why do you think it's not 1000 Hz?
Grove City, Norwich (Hilliard) and Prairie are all on a trunked system which by definition cannot have their system activated by tones. It's a network switch just like pretty much every other station that has a PA that can be opened up by their dispatcher. The exception is Grandview Heights which while they have the capability to be toned out, I don't know if they actually use it or not. Before the current system, the township units were dispatched by "county fire" which was frankly before my time, but when I first started out here, I would still hear people calling on the old county fire frequency. I have not heard that either on my scanner or on duty for at least a year if not 2 or 3.
Grandview is dispatched by Columbus. The Grandview PD no longer has tone capability.
A few townships were dispatched by "county fire". Many were on the "county fire" frequency 33.86 but dispatched for themselves or by their local PD.
Actually GHPD can still dispatch GHFD; since they're located in the same building they simply do it by PA (but rarely do, usually only for a messenger alarm, a walk-in, or injured prisoner). They got rid of the repeater when the owner of the building the fire and PD repeaters are on doubled the rent on each; so they left the PD repeater in place and got rid of the FD repeater.
Only Hamilton Township was dispatched by the SO on 33.86; back in the pre-MECC day Mifflin Twp was dispatched by the SO on 33.52 (this was after they closed down their own FD/PD dispatch center). IIRC those were the only two fire departments ever dispatched by FCSO.
In the interest of history (back in the good ol' days, pre-1988 or 89):
Columbus FD - 154.310, 154.400 (self-dispatched)
Grandview Heights FD - 153.980 (GHPD)
Clinton Twp FD - 33.96 (self)
Upper Arlington FD - 460.575 (UAPD)
Norwich Twp FD - 33.86 (self then Hilliard PD)
Washington Twp FD - 33.80 (Perry Twp then self)
Perry Twp FD - 33.80 (Perry Twp Comm Division)
Worthington FD - 33.76 (self)
Westerville FD - 155.040 then 154.160 (self)
Plain Twp FD - 33.86 (self)
Mifflin Twp FD - 33.52 (self then FCSO, pre-MECC)
Jefferson Twp FD - 155.745 (self)
Whitehall FD - 33.92 (self)
Truro Twp FD - 33.92 (self)
Hamilton Twp FD - 33.86 (self then FCSO)
Madison Twp FD - 33.94, if I recall correctly (self)
Franklin Twp FD - 46.56 (self)
Jackson Twp FD - 33.82 (self then Grove City PD)
Pleasant Twp FD - 33.82 (self then GCPD)
Prairie Twp FD - 33.86 (self)
Most of these used Motorola Quik Call II or Plectron with the exception of CFD (wireline to firehouse PA), and a few others.
Perry Twp was kind of unique; I believe it was the only local agency in the county with a separate communications division, with it's own chief. It was set up that way in order to have a measure of independence and impartiality from any of the agencies they dispatched for. At one time, Perry Twp Communications dispatched the following:
Perry Twp PD and Dublin PD - 460.050
Perry Twp FD and Washington Twp FD (once a combined department) - 33.80
Perry Twp Service - 159.195
Shawnee Hills PD - 39.62
Ah, the good old days.
I'm not sure how you are getting your pager to detect the prairie and norwich tones, because I was under the understanding that the way 800 systems work, you never know which voice frequency channel the tones will be played on!
I know for a fact that grandview PD still can dispatch Grandview FD but it's just rare.
And thanks for the history lesson guys! I grew up near the Perry Twp FD and I remember it just disappearing one day with no explanation as to why! I now know of course about the consolidation, but it's interesting to learn about how things used to be around here.
And yes, it must have been Hamilton that I used to hear on the radio calling for "County Fire" when I first started out. I've also not heard of Jefferson township--I'm assuming it got completely annexed by Columbus?
And thanks for the history lesson guys! I grew up near the Perry Twp FD and I remember it just disappearing one day with no explanation as to why! I now know of course about the consolidation, but it's interesting to learn about how things used to be around here.
Pretty simple:
1. Install trunked radio in firehouse.
2. Connect paging tone decoder to audio output on accessory connector.
3. Connect switched audio output to firehouse PA.
I've done several; works like a charm as long as the audio levels are set right. Most houses have a day/night switch in the watch booth which bypasses the tone decoder during the day.
Jefferson Twp still exists and is actually quite an up-and-coming little area, with fairly high-end housing being built; they have their own water/sewer system and everything. It's part of the Gahanna "metroplex" along with Mifflin Twp. They're dispatched by MECC (Station 141).
This actually sounds like something I might want to build soon for a little bit of a project we're working on. I'll have to do some more research into this.
The station I'm at here in Franklin CO is dispatched through being hardwired, but out in rural ohio, we're all on tones/plectron (which are the same thing right? the plectron sounds it, the tones send it?).
Oh! That's blacklick right? I just never knew their name was actually Jefferson Township!