so ive been using Log4OM for general logging for about two years now and honestly love it for day to day stuff, the QRZ lookups work great and keeping track of my DXCC progress is way easier than whatever i was doing before. but every time contest season rolls around i end up switching back to N1MM and it feels like im maintaining two completely separate lives on my radio desk.

the thing thats been bugging me lately is the WSJT-X integration. i run FT8 pretty heavily during some of the bigger contests like CQ WW and i cant figure out if im better off just committing to N1MM full time or if Log4OM can actually handle the contest side of things without me wanting to throw the laptop out the window. ive read the Log4OM docs but they kind of assume you already know what youre doing with the contest module which, i dont really.

anyone run both and settled on one? or is the answer just use N1MM for contests and Log4OM for everything else and accept that ADIF exports between them are part of the workflow now

honestly the two-logger setup is just kind of the accepted reality for a lot of people. N1MM is basically the standard for contesting and theres a reason it stays that way — the rate display, the dupe checking, the way it handles multipliers in real time, nothing else really touches it for that stuff. Log4OM is genuinely better for the everyday DX hunting and awards tracking side of things though so i get why you'd want both.

for WSJT-X during contests what i do is have WSJT-X log to N1MM directly via the UDP port, N1MM listens on 2237 by default and WSJT-X has the setting right there under reporting. works pretty reliably in my experience, occasionally it misses one if youre running fast but not often enough to stress about. after the contest i just export the N1MM log as ADIF and import it into Log4OM to update the master log. takes maybe ten minutes and its not as painful as it sounds once youve done it a few times.

the Log4OM contest module is fine for casual stuff but if youre doing anything serious i wouldnt try to run CQWW through it, you'll spend more time troubleshooting than operating

yeah the UDP integration between WSJT-X and N1MM is pretty solid, been doing it that way for a couple years. just make sure youre not also accidentally logging to a file at the same time or you end up with duplicates when you go to merge things later, learned that the hard way during last years ARRL DX