so ive been running Log4OM for general station logging for about two years now and honestly its pretty solid for day to day stuff, qsl tracking, award tracking, all that. but every time a contest rolls around i end up downloading N1MM again because nothing really touches it for that use case. the rate meter alone is worth it.

the thing is i keep having to manually import my contest logs back into Log4OM afterward and half the time something gets weird with the ADIF and i end up with dupes or missing RST info. been messing with WSJT-X in the mix too now for FT8 and that adds another layer because WSJT-X wants to talk to Log4OM via UDP and i set that up fine but then when im in a contest and running N1MM at the same time things get... complicated. had one session where i think contacts were going to both logs and neither one was complete.

does anyone just accept running two or three logging programs and deal with the import/export mess after the fact, or is there a cleaner workflow im missing? feels like theres gotta be a better way but maybe not

yeah this is basically the eternal ham radio software problem lol. i gave up trying to have one program do everything a while back. N1MM is king for contesting, full stop, nothing else comes close if you actually care about your score or even just running a clean log under pressure. but its not really designed to be your everyday logbook and i dont think the developers ever intended it to be.

what i do now is just keep N1MM for contests only and accept that the post-contest ADIF merge into my main log (i use DXKeeper) is gonna take like 20 minutes of cleanup. its annoying but its predictable. the WSJT-X thing though i just let that log to its own ADIF file and import separately, never tried to get UDP going to two programs at once, sounds like a nightmare honestly. might be worth just turning off the Log4OM UDP listener when youre in contest mode so at least you know where everything is going

Im pretty new to this whole logging software rabbit hole so take this with a grain of salt but i ran into a similar thing when i was setting up WSJT-X and Log4OM together. there's a setting in Log4OM under the UDP server config where you can basically tell it to accept or reject incoming log entries and i think if N1MM is also broadcasting on the same port things can definitely collide. i dont do contesting yet so i cant speak to the N1MM side but the WSJT-X to Log4OM pipe has been working fine for me once i got the port numbers sorted out. the default is 2237 i think but i had to change mine because something else on my PC was using it.