Motorola RLN6306 Alkaline Battery Frame RDx Series Radios

The RLN6306 is Motorola's alkaline battery frame for the RDx Series. It replaces the rechargeable pack on the back of the radio and takes ordinary alkaline cells instead.

Motorola's RDx user guide describes the series as supplied with Lithium-Ion batteries in different capacities, and says the radios also offer the option to use alkaline batteries. This frame is that option. It matters in two situations. The first is a site with no power, or a long job away from a charging tray, where a handful of cells from a store is the difference between a working radio and a dead one. The second is the radio that comes off the charger flat because nobody set it down properly the night before.

It is worth keeping one frame per few radios in a kit bag rather than one per radio. The rechargeable pack remains the cheaper way to run a fleet day to day; the frame is the fallback that stops a shift from losing a radio entirely.