so ive been playing around with the online cluster spotting stuff for maybe a month now and im honestly not sure if im using it the way most people do. basically what i do is pull up DXwatch in one browser tab and QRZ.com in another and when i see a spot come in for something i want i try to look up the callsign real quick to see if it's a new entity for me before i even bother tuning there. feels a little clunky and i lose the spot sometimes before i can even get to the radio

is there like a better workflow for this? i saw someone mention a phone app that combines cluster and logbook stuff but i forget what it was called. im running windows 10 and use WSJT-X for most of my digital work, occasionally SSB. my log is in Log4OM if that matters. just wondering how experienced guys handle this when they're seriously trying to work new entities

yeah the two-tab thing works but it does get chaotic when the bands are busy. what a lot of folks do is use something like DX4WIN or even just the built in cluster tools in their logging software — Log4OM actually has a cluster window built in if you dig into the settings a bit, it'll show you spots and flag new ones based on your existing log automatically. so you'd know right away if its a new one without having to flip tabs

for phone stuff i like DX Toolkit on android, its not perfect but it pulls spots and lets you filter by band and mode which helps a lot. HamSphere has some tools too but i dont really use that. honestly once you get the cluster feeding directly into your log software it changes everything, you stop chasing dupes and start actually finding the good stuff

same boat as you a few months ago lol. what got me was i didnt realize Log4OM could connect to telnet clusters directly and cross-check against your log. took me forever to find that setting. once i set that up i stopped using the browser tabs almost completely except sometimes ill still glance at DXwatch just cause the interface shows propagation direction which i like visually