so ive been running N1MM for contests for a few years now and honestly its great for that specific thing, no complaints really, but outside of contest season i find myself wanting something that handles everyday logging better and tracks awards progress and all that. a buddy of mine swears by Log4OM for his day to day stuff so i installed it and started poking around.

the thing im trying to figure out is whether its worth the hassle of maintaining two separate logs or if theres a clean way to keep everything in sync. i know you can export ADIF from N1MM after a contest and import it into Log4OM but ive had some weird duplicate issues and the exchange fields dont always map right, especially for contests where youre logging things like serial numbers or section codes that dont really have a clean ADIF equivalent.

also the WSJT-X integration is kind of its own mess. right now WSJT-X is logging to Log4OM through the udp broadcast thing but then if im doing a digital contest i switch N1MM in and everything gets confused about which program is supposed to be the master. anyone else dealing with this or did you just pick one program and commit to it

yeah i went through exactly this maybe two years ago and eventually just committed to Log4OM full time. the contest module in Log4OM isnt as polished as N1MM, i'll be honest about that, N1MM is basically purpose-built for contesting and its hard to beat for that. but i got tired of the two-log juggle and the ADIF import headaches and just decided good enough was good enough for the handful of contests i actually do seriously.

for the WSJT-X thing — what i do is set WSJT-X to log to Log4OM via UDP and just leave it. if im in a contest that N1MM supports and i actually care about my score i'll temporarily point WSJT-X at N1MM instead and then do a manual ADIF merge after. its not elegant but it works and ive stopped getting duplicates since i just do a careful dupe check before importing. the key is making sure your ADIF export from N1MM includes the contest-specific fields and then mapping them manually in Log4OM on import, theres a field mapping screen that most people skip past too fast.

I just use N1MM for everything including digital contests and honestly never saw the point of Log4OM but I know a lot of guys like it. One thing worth knowing — if you run WSJT-X during something like FD or a state QSO party, you can have both N1MM and WSJT-X open and set WSJT-X to send UDP packets to N1MM on port 2333 or whatever you have N1MM listening on. WSJT-X logs the QSO and N1MM picks it up automatically, no manual import needed. Works pretty well though sometimes the band/mode doesnt come through exactly how N1MM expects it and you get a werid entry that needs fixing.