so ive been using N1MM pretty much since i got my ticket a few years back, mostly because thats what the club guys told me to use for contests and i just never switched away from it for everyday logging either. it works fine but honestly the interface feels like its from 2003 and i keep hearing people talk about Log4OM like its way more modern and easier to deal with for day to day stuff.

main thing im wondering about is how it plays with WSJT-X. right now my setup is N1MM running alongside WSJT-X and they talk to each other okay through the UDP broadcast thing but it took me like two weekends to get it configured right and i still dont fully understand why it works. does Log4OM handle that integration any cleaner or is it gonna be the same headache just with a different interface?

also for contests, i know N1MM is basically the gold standard and i wouldnt switch that out, but does anyone run Log4OM for everyday and then just fire up N1MM when a contest weekend comes around? seems like it could get messy with duplicate checking across two different log files unless theres a way to sync them that i dont know about.

yeah i ran that exact dual-logger setup for about a year, Log4OM for daily stuff and N1MM for contests. the ADIF export/import works well enough but you really do have to stay on top of it or your dupe checking in N1MM gets unreliable. what i ended up doing was just importing my Log4OM ADIF into N1MM before any major contest so the master log was current. bit of a pain but not terrible once you have the workflow down.

the WSJT-X integration in Log4OM is honestly pretty smooth in version 2, they put a lot of work into that. UDP listener is built right into the config menu and it picked up my spots without much fuss. still had to fiddle with the port settings because i had a firewall thing going on but thats not really a Log4OM problem.

personally i just went back to N1MM for everything because im too lazy to maintain two logs, but if the UI bothers you Log4OM is genuinely nicer looking and has better QSL tracking built in.

N1MM UI from 2003 lol fair point but i think thats kind of the point, its not trying to be pretty its trying to be fast. during a contest when youre running 200 contacts an hour you really dont want anything fancy getting in the way. that said for rag chewing and digital modes on a slow afternoon i totally get wanting something that doesnt feel like a tax software from the bush era.

i havent used Log4OM much myself, tried it once and got confused by the module layout but that might just be me. one thing i will say is that if you do a lot of FT8 the WSJT-X to N1MM pipeline is really well documented at this point, theres a KB article on the N1MM site that walks through exactly which UDP settings to use and it finally made sense to me after i read that instead of just guessing at port numbers.