Cheers for the feedback.
The measurement speed is not critical. But alignment (from device to device, or device to the horizon) is wholely indeterminate. Therefore both tellurometer or GPS are excluded.
I'd kind of settled on using the principles of RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging), which I think I could build, but I don't really want to.
I am intreged by using a local environment reference wave, but can't see how that could be used to determine the distance between two devices? Could you illaborate?
Cheers