If you set the offset to -8 and it reads the same time as your watch then you are off by one hour, your Empeg thinks that UTC is one hour later than the Royal Observatory does. That is enough to slow down your aquisition. As I said earlier, it is equvalent to an 800 mile position error for purposes of estimating the center of the doppler search for the satellite's carrier.

And yes, I was in left field about which computer was which (and I am not Barry).

Lynn