so ive been using N1MM pretty much exclusively for the last few years mostly because thats what everyone at the club uses and it just works for contests. but outside of contest season i find it kind of clunky for just day to day logging, like if i work a bunch of DX on a sunday afternoon i dont really want to deal with all the contest-specific stuff cluttering up the screen.

somebody mentioned Log4OM a while back and i downloaded it but never really got into it. does anyone actually run both? like N1MM for when youre doing a serious contest run and Log4OM for everything else? or is that just creating more problems keeping two logs in sync. also how does WSJT-X play into this — right now i have WSJT-X logging directly into N1MM via UDP and it mostly works but sometimes dupes get weird especially if ive been operating split between FT8 and SSB in the same session.

not looking to reinvent my whole setup just wondering if theres a cleaner way to handle this without losing contest functionality

yeah i run basically that exact setup, N1MM for contests and Log4OM for everything else. the sync between them isnt perfect honestly, what i do is just export an ADIF from Log4OM at the end of each month and import it into N1MM so at least the dupe checking stays somewhat current. its a little manual but takes like two minutes and i stopped worrying about it.

the WSJT-X thing you mentioned is a real annoyance. the UDP logging works fine when youre doing a pure FT8 session but yeah if you jump back and forth between modes in the same band it can get confused. what fixed it for me mostly was making sure WSJT-X is only pointed at one logging target at a time. i had it trying to send to both N1MM and Log4OM simultaneously for a while and that was a disaster, dupes everywhere and a couple of contacts just vanished. pick one and stick with it during a session, then import after.

Log4OM is really nice for everyday stuff, the DX cluster integration and the way it handles DXCC tracking is way better than N1MM for casual operating. N1MM is kind of overkill if youre not actually running a contest rate. that said i tried switching fully to Log4OM for a contest once and i missed N1MM badly about 20 minutes in, the SO2R stuff and the function key macros are just so much more dialed in for that use case.

just keep both installed honestly, disk space isnt exactly a concern in 2024