Michael Watterson wrote:
> feed all 3 beacons with same length cable from one controller.

Or the other way around.  Have the copter emit pulses and multiple receiver=
s
scattered around at known fixed locations pick up the pulses and a master
processing system compares the received times to find position.  Ultrasound
should work for this.


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