so ive been using N1MM for a few years now mostly for contests but i also just use it day to day because i never really bothered setting up anything else. it works fine but its kind of overkill when im just logging a few ragchews or some POTA stuff and half the features i dont even know what they do

a buddy of mine keeps telling me to try Log4OM and i downloaded it a while back but never really dug into it. the interface looked a bit different and i just went back to N1MM out of habit. does anyone actually run two separate loggers, like N1MM strictly for contests and something like Log4OM for general use? or is that more trouble than its worth keeping two logs synced up

also i run WSJT-X on the side for FT8 and i know it can log to both but ive had weirdness before where dupes show up or the freq data doesnt come through right. running an IC-7300 if that matters

yeah i do exactly that, N1MM for any serious contest operating and Log4OM for everything else. took maybe an afternoon to get the ADIF import sorted out so the logs dont diverge too badly. Log4OM is honestly really nice once you get past the initial setup, the QRZ and LoTW integration is way smoother than trying to hack it together in N1MM

the WSJT-X thing with the 7300 i ran into the same issue. what fixed it for me was making sure only one logger at a time has the UDP port open from WSJT-X, because if both N1MM and Log4OM are running and both listening you get duplicate entries and sometimes the band data gets weird. just close whichever one youre not actively contesting with and it clears right up. obvious in hindsight but it got me for a while

honestly i just use N1MM for everything and export ADIF when i need to. probably not the answer you want but i never saw the point in maintaining two logs, too much that can go wrong with syncing. Log4OM looks nice in screenshots but every time someone in my club sets it up there's always like a week of fiddling before it behaves