During reception, the gNodeBs 202-206 record/report the beam index on which the RTT signals were received from the UE 102, and include that information in the RTTR payload, along with the timestamps (e.g., turn-around time) described earlier. In case the gNodeBs 202-206 have fewer RF chains than the number of receive beams it uses (as a single hardware receiver chain may be configurable to generate multiple receive beams), the UE 102 may be commanded to repeat the RTTM/RTTR signals multiple times, so that the gNodeB may sequentially cycle through the set of all receive beams that may be used to receive the RTT signals from the UE 102, based on its limited base-band processing capabilities. Note that different beam directions would result in different directional gains for the different multipath delays. Since RTT and OTDOA positioning methods rely on estimating the direct delay corresponding to the line-of-sight (LOS) path between the transmitter and receiver, it is of interest to identify the earliest arriving path, and this identification may be improved by using different transmit and receive beams.