Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) engaged in a positioning session with a transmission-reception point (TRP) receives, during a first state, a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, receives a first association between at least one SRS resource of the one or more SRS resources and at least one random access channel (RACH) resource of one or more RACH resources, switches out of the first state during an ongoing positioning session, and transmits, while outside the first state, at least a first signal of a RACH procedure to the TRP using transmission properties based on the first association between the at least one SRS resource and the at least one RACH resource.