so ive been using N1MM for basically everything for the last few years, contests obviously but also just day to day HF logging. it works fine and i know it pretty well at this point but honestly the UI feels like its frozen in like 2005 and some of the non-contest stuff is kind of clunky to set up. a buddy at the club keeps telling me to try Log4OM and i finally downloaded it last week but havent had time to dig in.

my main thing is i run WSJT-X for FT8 and FT4 a fair amount, mostly for DXCC chasing, and i need whatever i use to talk to WSJT-X cleanly so the QSOs get logged automatically without me having to do anything manual. N1MM does this fine with the UDP thing. does Log4OM handle that just as well or is there weirdness with it? also does Log4OM even make sense to use during a contest or do people just switch back to N1MM for that

not trying to completely overhaul my setup if theres no real reason to, just wondering if anyone has actually run both for a while and has an opinion

I've had both installed for probably two years now and honestly I just use them for different things at this point. Log4OM is genuinely nicer for everyday logging, the DX cluster integration and the award tracking stuff is way more fleshed out than N1MM, and yeah it handles the WSJT-X UDP feed just fine, you just point WSJT-X at the Log4OM port and it picks up the QSOs. I did have one weird issue early on where dupes werent getting flagged correctly but a settings thing fixed it, dont remember exactly what it was.

For contests though I go back to N1MM every time. Log4OM can do some contests but it's just not the same, the dedicated contest mode in N1MM with the callsign lookup speed and the dupe checking and S&P vs run mode switching is hard to beat when you're in the middle of something like SS or a sprint. I dont think anyone is really using Log4OM as their primary contest logger seriously, at least nobody I know.

yeah the WSJT-X thing works, i switched to Log4OM about a year ago for general logging and never went back for that stuff. just make sure you go into the WSJT-X settings under reporting and set the UDP server address right, and then in Log4OM there's a spot in the settings for the WSJT-X integration, its pretty straightforward once you find it. the first time i set it up i missed a step and it wasn't logging anything for like 20 minutes before i figured out i hadn't enabled it on the Log4OM side.

N1MM stays on my machine though, contest season i fire it up and thats that. i wouldnt try to do a serious contest in Log4OM personally