# OTAA and bad contacts in your node's antenna

**URL:** <https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/otaa-and-bad-contacts-in-your-nodes-antenna/32984>\
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**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/otaa-and-bad-contacts-in-your-nodes-antenna/32984 "2019-12-28T22:12:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![bluejedi](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/bluejedi/32/44639_2.png) [@bluejedi](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/bluejedi)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/otaa-and-bad-contacts-in-your-nodes-antenna/32984/38 "2020-01-03T00:42:37Z")

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This thread is getting way off-topic and is therefore closed.  
The issues described in the initial post are related to defective hardware and are not representative for OTAA in general.

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For more information about ESP32 and LoRaWAN see: [Big ESP32 + SX127x topic part 3](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/big-esp32-sx127x-topic-part-3/18436)  
For more information about LoRaWAN libraries see: [Overview of LoRaWAN Libraries [HowTo]](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/overview-of-lorawan-libraries-howto/24692)

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