How do you attach the two metal strips (antenna) to the coaxial terminal? Do they need direct contact to the terminal? Do I need to solder them to the terminal?

 

The little tin foil antennae didnt last very long for me anyhow
I ended up soldering 18 guage wire to each side of mine...hasn"t broke yet anyway
got about 3000 hard miles on mine since the install

 

I soldered mine on and then tie wrapped them to the front plastic grill in about 4 places on each side. They are holding up pretty good so far.

 

I did as the directions stated , cleaned the area and used the adhesive backing so far so good. Oh i put it under the handlebar plastic.

 

The adhesive didnt last very long either....ended up using epoxy on that
Glued it to the inside of the handlebar plastic....ran my 18 guage ant. wires up to the screws
at the outside by the grips and epoxyied them bout half way