so ive been running N1MM for probably 4 or 5 years now and its been fine for contests, does everything i need for sweepstakes and the CQ WW stuff, but lately ive been hearing a lot about Log4OM and people saying its better for everyday DX logging and the integration with stuff like WSJT-X is cleaner or something. my current setup is that i use N1MM during contests and then i sort of manually import everything into another log after, which is honestly a pain and i keep putting off doing it so now i have like 3 contests worth of QSOs sitting unmerged.

the thing is i dont really want to blow up a workflow thats working right before contest season kicks into high gear again. i messed around with Log4OM a little bit last winter and it seemed nice but i couldnt figure out how to get the WSJT-X integration set up properly, the UDP stuff kept not connecting and i gave up. anybody running both or made the switch? is there actually a reason to bother or am i just chasing something because its shiny

the UDP thing with WSJT-X tripped me up too for a while. make sure in WSJT-X settings under reporting you have the UDP server set to 127.0.0.1 and the port matches what Log4OM is listening on, i think its 2237 by default but check the Log4OM config because sometimes it gets set different on install. also Windows firewall was silently blocking it on my machine and i spent like two hours staring at it before i figured that out.

as for switching, i still use N1MM for any serious contesting because honestly nothing touches it for that, the SO2R stuff and the rate display and just the overall speed of it during a run is hard to beat. but Log4OM as my everyday shack log has been really solid, the award tracking and the LoTW sync is way nicer than trying to do it manually. i just export an ADIF from N1MM after each contest and import it, takes five minutes. not that different from what youre doing except i actually do it right away instead of letting it pile up

yeah i dont think theres any world where Log4OM replaces N1MM for contesting, they kind of do different things. Log4OM is more like a shack management tool that also logs, N1MM is pure contest machine. i run WSJT-X into Log4OM UDP all the time for FT8 and once you get it working its pretty seamless, QSOs just show up. but if youre in a contest running 200 an hour you want N1MM, full stop. just keep both and stop trying to make one do everything