All,
I like to fly fish and often find myself setting up a base camp beside a river/stream/creek in a remote location, typically along a Forest Service road in northern Idaho and Montana. These areas are usually in deep twisting canyons and, from my limited experience, not conducive to reaching out to a repeater on VHF/UHF.
For basecamp emergency comms I am thinking of setting up a dipole antenna configured for NVIS (Near Vertical Incidence Skywave) in the 40 and 80 meter bands. A google search offers various citations on antenna construction and other details. Does anyone here have any experience with NVIS and do you think this is a reasonable approach for basecamp emergency communications?

Thanks,
Jim H
K7EXP