A detector for high-frequency Schottky signals in the LHC is currently being designed in the framework of the US-LARP collaboration. The detector will work at 4.8 GHz, where coherent beam signals should be rather low and the incoherent Schottky bands should not yet overlap. This note discusses the expected properties of the incoherent Schottky signals in this frequency range for various types of proton and ion beams in the LHC. The use of gating to increase the signal-to-noise ratio for the pilot beam is also discussed
