so ive been using N1MM for a few years now mostly for contests, works fine for that, but outside of contests its kind of a pain to deal with for general logging. a buddy at the club keeps telling me to try Log4OM and honestly it looks a lot more polished from the screenshots but i dunno if its worth learning a whole new program.

the thing that got me thinking about this is i also run WSJT-X pretty regularly for FT8 and the integration between WSJT-X and N1MM has always felt a little clunky to me. like it works but every time i update one of them something breaks and i spend 20 minutes figuring out the UDP settings again. Log4OM supposedly handles that better but i havent confirmed that myself.

anyone actually use Log4OM for serious contesting? that's the part im most unsure about. i do maybe 4-5 contests a year, nothing crazy, mostly CQWW and some state QSO parties. N1MM is obviously king for that stuff but if Log4OM can handle it reasonably well id consider just consolidating everything into one logger instead of juggling two.

Honestly I went through this exact same thing about two years ago. Ended up keeping both installed and just accepting it. N1MM for any real contesting, no contest — pun intended — nothing touches it for that, the telnet cluster integration and the way it handles dupe checking during a run is just too good. But Log4OM as my everyday logger and it talks to WSJT-X way more cleanly in my experience. The LoTW and Club Log sync alone makes it worth it for day to day stuff.

The WSJT-X UDP thing with N1MM used to drive me crazy too. I think part of the problem is WSJT-X logs everything including dupes and N1MM doesnt always know what to do with that. Never fully sorted it out, just gave up and let Log4OM handle the FT8 logging.

log4om is great dont get me wrong but if you care about contesting at all just keep n1mm. log4om contest support exists but its not really in the same league, at least not for the bigger contests. i tried using it for a state qso party once and the exchange handling was just awkward compared to what im used to.