Try these settings on both the Tx and RX chip
Code:
DEFINE HSER_RCSTA 90h ' Enable serial port & continuous receive
DEFINE HSER_TXSTA 20h ' Enable transmit, BRGH = 0
DEFINE HSER_SPBRG 51  ' 2400 Baud @ 8MHz, 0.17%
DEFINE HSER_CLROERR 1 ' Clear overflow automatically