I have used many Atheros card in RB532 and RB112. Since last week no problems haven’t been. All routers are in outdoor case and grounded.
Now I have replaced 6 R52 cards with 2,4GHz failures.
All the 5GHZ equipment is working properly.
The problem most likey is in the grounding, the static electricity could kill your radios. Look on the forum there was a topic about antennas and grounding.