so ive been running Log4OM for general logging for a couple years now and honestly its fine, does what i need for day to day stuff, keeping track of QSOs, awards tracking, that kind of thing. but every time contest season rolls around i feel like im fighting it a bit. someone at the club mentioned just running N1MM alongside it and keeping them separate which sounds messy but maybe thats just how people do it?

also started messing with FT8 more lately and WSJT-X has its own log and then i have to import that into Log4OM and half the time the dupes dont get flagged right or the band info comes in weird. im probably doing something wrong with the ADIF import settings but i havent had time to dig into it.

basically wondering if anyone runs all three of these or if theres a cleaner way to do this without maintaining like three separate logs that slowly drift out of sync. my DXCC count in Log4OM is already slightly off from what LoTW shows and i dont even know where the discrepancy came from at this point

yeah running N1MM just for contests is pretty much the standard thing to do, dont overthink it. most guys i know keep N1MM for anything contest related because its just built for that, the rate display alone is worth it when youre trying to grind out a SS or a sprint. then Log4OM or whatever for the shack log. after the contest you export the ADIF from N1MM and import it into your main log, takes maybe five minutes if you set up the import filters right.

the WSJT-X thing is annoying, i had the same band/mode import issues for a while. turned out i had the ADIF mode field mapping wrong in Log4OM, FT8 was coming in as some generic MFSK entry. there's a thread on the Log4OM groups.io about fixing that, worth searching. once i fixed the mode map it started flagging dupes properly. still manually verify my LoTW against Log4OM maybe once a month just to keep things honest, five minute job with the sync tool built in.

i just use N1MM for everything honestly, even outside contests. i know thats not how most people use it but it handles FT8 via the WSJT-X UDP port and logs it automatically so i dont have to do any importing at all. the general logging stuff is a bit clunky compared to Log4OM i'll admit, the interface isnt exactly pretty, but having one log that never gets out of sync is worth the tradeoff for me. LoTW credits match up pretty cleanly because its all one source.