so ive been using N1MM for probably 4 or 5 years now and honestly its fine for contests, does what it needs to do, but outside of contest weekends i find myself just not wanting to deal with it for casual QSOs. its clearly built around the contest workflow and everything else feels like an afterthought.

started poking around Log4OM last month after a buddy at the club mentioned it and it looks way more polished for general logging, eqsl, lotw integration seems cleaner, the UI doesnt make me feel like im in 2003. but now im wondering if i switch over fully do i just keep N1MM around just for contests and maintain two separate logs or is there a sane way to sync them without losing my mind.

also running WSJT-X for FT8 stuff and right now its just dumping to N1MM via UDP which works fine but ive heard Log4OM handles that too. anyone actually running that combo? does the UDP feed from WSJT-X to Log4OM work as reliably or is there gotchas i should know about before i mess with a setup thats currently working

yeah i basically run exactly what youre describing - Log4OM for day to day stuff and N1MM only comes out for contest weekends. the ADIF import/export between them isnt perfect but its workable if you're careful about timing. i do an export from N1MM right after a contest, import into Log4OM, and havent had major duplicate issues as long as i double check the date ranges.

the WSJT-X to Log4OM UDP thing does work, ive had it running for about a year. only real gotcha i hit was making sure the port settings werent conflicting - if you ever had N1MM set up on the same machine WSJT-X might still be trying to talk to it on the old port. just double check the WSJT-X settings under reporting and make sure the secondary udp server is pointing where you want it. once i sorted that out it just works, logs come right in.

two logs is annoying but honestly not as bad as it sounds once you get a routine. i tried to do everything in one piece of sofware for a while and kept running into stuff that worked great for one mode and was janky for another. N1MM during a contest is really hard to beat, the bandmap, the dupe checking, S&P vs run switching, nothing else really comes close for serious contesting. but yeah for just logging a ragchew or tracking DX entities it feels overkill.

one thing i'll throw out - if your mainly doing FT8 outside of contests have you looked at just letting WSJT-X log to its own ADIF and then periodically importing that into whatever your main logger is? thats what i did for a while before i settled on a setup. not elegant but keeps things simple when your not sure which direction your heading