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C5, will only give you VHF, so you don't want to start with it
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Actually, I would specifically recommend he start with the C5 by itself.
On VHF 7-13, the antenna is extremely well behaved with that 70° forward beamwidth. On UHF, it tends to behave more like a quasi-omni antenna.
When we first came out with the C5 back in the summer of '09, we were positioning it as a VHF supplement to our comprehensive line of UHF antennas. It didn't take long for us to notice that customers were keeping it and sending back the UHF antenna because they discovered the C5 covered their needs by itself.
We went back to our design engineer and had him run the modelling on the C5 for UHF frequencies. We we all saw the results, we changed its marketing to reflect that it can be a long-range high VHF antenna as well as a short-medium range UHF antenna for relatively uncomplicated UHF situations. At our office in St Louis, we get all of our local signals from a roof-mounted C5. It's been up there for about 4 years.
The complete technical data sheet for the C5 is on our website. Go to the C5's product page, then click on the "Documents" tab.