so ive been using N1MM for a while now mostly for contests and it does what it needs to do but honestly outside of contest weekends its kind of overkill and the interface feels like it was designed in 2003 and never really updated visually. not complaining about functionality just the look and feel gets to me after a while.

anyway i started looking at Log4OM because a few guys at the club swear by it for day to day logging and general station management, it looks way more modern and apparently handles WSJT-X integration pretty well which is something i care about since i run FT8 a fair amount in between contests. my question is whether anyone has actually made the switch from N1MM to Log4OM or runs both and what the workflow is like when contest season hits again. like does Log4OM hold up for something like CQWW or SS or do you end up going back to N1MM just for those weekends

also curious how people are handling the WSJT-X side of things, right now i just let WSJT-X log to its own ADIF and then import periodically which feels clunky but works. is there a cleaner way people are doing this

I run both actually and have for a couple years now. Log4OM is my daily driver for everything casual, rag chews, DXCC chasing, the occasional digital session. The WSJT-X integration is honestly pretty solid if you set up the UDP logging correctly, it just shows up in real time without having to do the ADIF import dance you're describing. Took me like 20 minutes to configure the first time and then it just works.

That said, I go back to N1MM the second a serious contest starts. No debate about it. The rate meter, the SO2R stuff if you run that, the way it handles dupe checking on the fly during a pileup, Log4OM just isnt there yet for that kind of pace. I've tried doing SS in Log4OM and it was fine at low rates but when things got busy i felt like i was fighting the software a little. might just be muscle memory from years of N1MM though, hard to say. but yeah two programs, two different jobs, and i've just accepted that's how it is for now.

the udp thing the other guy mentioned is definitely the way to go with wsjt-x, once you get that set up you stop thinking about it. pretty sure log4om has a guide on their site for it, or there was a youtube walkthrough i found a while back that was pretty clear.

i dont do a ton of contesting so cant really comment on that part but for general use log4om has been really good to me. the award tracking alone is worth it if you're chasing anything seriously