Wendt, M. Betz, M. Jones, O.R. Lefèvre, T. Levens, T.E. JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-177-9 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2016-TUPG46 English 454-457 TUPG46 pick-up cavity insertion synchrotron coupling Contribution to a conference proceedings 2017 2017-02 http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2016-TUPG46 http://jacow.org/ibic2016/papers/tupg46.pdf The LHC Schottky monitors have the potential to measure and monitor some important beam parameters, tune, momentum spread, chromaticity and emittance, in a non-invasive way. We present recent upgrade and improvement efforts of the transverse LHC Schottky systems operating at 4.8 GHz. This includes optimization of the slotted waveguide pickups and a re-design of the RF front-end electronics to detect the weak, incoherent Schottky signals in presence of large, coherent beam harmonics.