so ive been using WSJT-X for a while now with the built in logging and it just dumps everything into an adi file which i then import into Log4OM and that workflow has been fine for casual FT8 stuff. but im starting to get more into contesting, did my first serious effort at a state QSO party last month and realized pretty quick that N1MM is basically what everyone uses for that.

my question is whether it makes sense to run both or if theres a way to get N1MM and Log4OM to play nice together so i dont end up with dupes all over the place or missing contacts in my main log. i know N1MM has its own database and Log4OM has its own and they dont really talk to each other natively as far as i can tell. does anyone export from N1MM after a contest and import into Log4OM or is that more trouble than its worth

also curious if anyone has WSJT-X feeding into N1MM during like a digital contest, i think thats possible with the UDP logging thing but havent messed with it yet

yeah this is pretty much the standard setup a lot of contesters end up with. N1MM for contests, something else as the main shack log. i use Log4OM as my daily driver and after any contest i just export the Cabrillo or ADIF from N1MM and import it into Log4OM. takes maybe five minutes and it works fine, Log4OM handles the dupe checking on import pretty well so you dont end up with a mess. only gotcha is if you worked someone on FT8 during the week before the contest and then again during the contest, Log4OM might flag it but its not really a problem you just confirm it.

the WSJT-X into N1MM thing does work, you set WSJT-X to send UDP packets to N1MM on port 2237 i think, and N1MM picks them up. ive done it for FD and it logs almost instantly. just make sure N1MM is running before you start WSJT-X or the connection doesnt always establish cleanly, had to restart both a couple times before i figured that out.

honestly i just gave up trying to keep one master log and accepted that N1MM is my contest log and Log4OM is everything else. the import after the contest works good enough. not perfect but close enough that i dont lose sleep over it