# Adafruit feather terminal block breakout board with Boron

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/adafruit-feather-terminal-block-breakout-board-with-boron/48252>\
**Category:** BLE // NFC\
**Tags:** boron\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/adafruit-feather-terminal-block-breakout-board-with-boron/48252 "2019-03-05T22:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimbol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jimbol](https://community.particle.io/u/jimbol)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/adafruit-feather-terminal-block-breakout-board-with-boron/48252/3 "2019-03-19T22:19:36Z")

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Hi All,  
A short update on this, that may be of help to others.

I think I understand what happens with this board and my difficulty connecting.

When a Boron is connected to this board, and using the antenna that comes with the boron, the Boron has a hard time connecting. If I disconnect from the terminal board, or use an NCD board in it’s place, it doesn’t have any trouble connecting. I believe it’s an RF problem, that the Adafruit board is affected by the transmit from the antenna enough that it won’t connect. If I move the antenna as far as possible from the adafruit board, it will connect.

Unfortunately I’m trying to make a compact assembly with board, sensors, battery and enclosure, so even though this is a very compact and useful to me form factor, it just doesn’t work when you put the antenna in the equation.

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