so ive been running N1MM for contesting for years now and its great for that obviously, but for everyday logging its kind of a pain to deal with honestly. someone at the club mentioned Log4OM and ive been messing around with it this week and its pretty nice for general stuff, awards tracking, QSL management etc.

my problem is WSJT-X. i have it talking to Log4OM okay now but during contests i still want to use N1MM because frankly nothing touches it for serious contesting and the bandmap integration is just too good to give up. but then i end up with QSOs in two different logs and i have to merge stuff after and its just a mess every time.

does anyone have a workflow that actually works here or am i just stuck choosing one and dealing with the limitations? i know you can pipe WSJT-X to N1MM during contests but outside of that i dont really want N1MM running just to log a few FT8 contacts on a tuesday night

yeah this was my exact situation for like two years. what i ended up doing is just keeping Log4OM as my master log and using the ADIF import after every contest. N1MM exports clean ADIF so you just dump it into Log4OM when you're done, do a dupe check, and move on. its an extra step but honestly takes maybe five minutes and i only contest a couple times a month anyway so its not a big deal for me.

the WSJT-X thing is fine if you set it up to log to Log4OM via UDP and then when you fire up a contest weekend you just stop Log4OM, redirect WSJT-X to N1MM and go. the annoying part is remembering to flip it back after. i've definitely ended up with a weekend of FT8 contacts sitting in N1MM that i forgot to export more than once

tbh i just gave up trying to be clever about it and run N1MM for everything including day to day. yeah the interface is clunky when youre not in a contest but once you get used to it its fine. Log4OM is prettier for sure and the LoTW integration feels smoother but i kept having issues with WSJT-X dropping the UDP connection randomly and i never figured out why. might have been a firewall thing on my machine