so ive been using Log4OM for general logging for about two years now and honestly its pretty good for day to day stuff, QSL management, looking up DX entities, all that. but every time contest season rolls around i fire up N1MM and its like switching between a bicycle and a race car. the SO2R support alone in N1MM is just on another level and the band map integration with my radio is so much tighter.

the thing thats been bugging me lately is the workflow when i want to log a mix of casual FT8 via WSJT-X and then jump into like a CW sprint or something. WSJT-X logs to its own ADIF file and then i have to import into Log4OM and sometimes the dupes dont get flagged right because the timestamps are slightly off or whatever. its not a disaster but its annoying enough that ive been wondering if just running everything through N1MM full time makes more sense. does N1MM handle WSJT-X UDP logging cleanly these days? last time i tried that was maybe 2021 and it was kinda flaky.

not really looking to abandon Log4OM entirely because the award tracking stuff is genuinely better there IMO. just wondering how other people handle this split-personality logging situation

yeah the UDP thing between WSJT-X and N1MM has gotten a lot better, at least in my experience. i run them side by side during ARRL DX and the FT8 QSOs come through into N1MM pretty reliably now. you just have to make sure the multicast address and port match up in both configs, i think its 224.0.0.1 port 2237 by default but double check that. the main gotcha i ran into was N1MM wasnt accepting the packets because the contest template i had loaded didnt have digital modes enabled, took me like an hour to figure that out.

the Log4OM award tracking thing is real though, i still keep it around just for that. i basically treat N1MM as my operating log and then do a bulk ADIF export after a contest and merge it into Log4OM. little clunky but it works and i havent lost a QSO yet doing it that way.

honestly i just run three separate logs and gave up trying to make them talk to each other perfectly. WSJT-X for all my FT8 and FT4, N1MM when theres a contest, Log4OM for everything else. at the end of each month i do a manual merge and check for dupes in Log4OM using the ADIF import. its probably not the elegant solution you're looking for but after fighting with UDP ports and ADIF timestamp formats for way too long i just decided my sanity was worth more than a perfectly automated pipeline. the only real problem is when i work the same station on FT8 during a contest and it ends up in both the WSJT-X log and N1MM, those are the ones that sometimes cause issues on import but its maybe 5 or 10 QSOs a month so not really worth stressing over