so ive been running N1MM for years mostly because thats what everyone at the club uses and it just works for contests, but ive been hearing a lot about Log4OM lately and wondering if its worth switching over or at least using it for day to day stuff outside of contesting

main thing is i do a fair bit of casual HF work, some DX chasing, and then a handful of contests a year, nothing serious like a full CQWW effort but i do the state QSO parties and sometimes the ARRL DX CW. right now i basically run N1MM for contests and then manually export the adif into a separate spreadsheet which is kind of embarrassing to admit but it works. the problem is the spreadsheet has gotten unwieldy and im missing stuff like award tracking and being able to see at a glance what bands i still need for a DXCC entity

someone at the last hamfest mentioned Log4OM has pretty good integration with clublog and lotw which would be huge for me. does it play nice with WSJT-X too? i run FT8 a fair bit in the evenings and right now WSJT-X just logs to its own file and i import that periodically which is kind of clunky. wondering if Log4OM can just sit there and grab the spots in real time or if theres some setup involved

not trying to ditch N1MM for contests obviously, that would be crazy, just want something better for the day to day logging side of things

yeah Log4OM is actually pretty solid for what you're describing. the WSJT-X integration works through the UDP logging port, you just point WSJT-X at Log4OM's IP and port in the settings and it'll log in real time as you complete QSOs. took me maybe 10 minutes to get working once i found the right menu in Log4OM, it's under the integrations section or something like that, been a while since i set it up

the clublog and lotw sync is good, not instant but if you set it up to auto-upload every X minutes it's basically seamless. the award tracking is decent for DXCC, it'll show you confirmed vs worked per band which is what you want. honestly for day to day logging its miles better than trying to maintain a spreadsheet, i dont know why anyone does that to themselves

i still use N1MM for every contest though, would never switch that out. Log4OM has a contest mode but it feels like an afterthought compared to N1MM's rate meter and the way it handles multiplier tracking. they're really two different tools

the UDP thing for WSJT-X does work but heads up that if you have both Log4OM and something like JTAlert running you have to daisy chain them, WSJT-X can only send UDP to one address at a time so JTAlert has to forward to Log4OM or vice versa. tripped me up for a bit when i first set it up because i was getting duplicate logs or missing QSOs entirely

also worth mentioning the adif import from your old logs is usually pretty clean, i brought in like 8 years of logs from various sources and only had a handful of weirdly formatted entries that needed fixing