Black Mountain Black Mountain is a in the Mojave Wasteland that serves as a radio station for the State of Utobitha . It can be located on the main map easily by spotting the winding road roughly east of Goodsprings and Sloan . Neil ' s shack is situated at the bottom of the mountain and marks the start of the road . Background . Black Mountain , a dominant feature of the area , was unoccupied for over a century after the Great War . The victim of a direct strike , most of Black Mountain ’ s radar arrays were knocked out immediately . Even though there were valuable materials inside the buildings that surrounded the arrays , the area was so irradiated that no one could survive longer than an hour or so . After the fall of the Master , many of the first generation super mutants headed east . At Black Mountain , they were able to find a place to set up a camp where they could avoid most of the world . It took some time for the super mutants to settle in and repair the equipment at the array , but they were finally able to enlist the help of some ghouls in order to make the array operational . Over time , nightkin and the more thuggish second generation super mutants trickled into Black Mountain and this eventually caused problems . The de facto leader of the community was Marcus , from Broken Hills . Due to the influx of mentally unstable super mutants , including one particular nightkin named Tabitha , Marcus was pushed out of the group at Black Mountain . He left with a small group of ( mostly first generation ) super mutants , ghouls , and friendly humans who went on to found Jacobstown . This left the nightkin and second generation super mutants to fend for themselves . Within weeks Tabitha progressively turned the satellite array into a fortress against any and all outsiders . She hallucinates regularly and has convinced the other super mutants ( especially the less intelligent second generation ) that only she can see the threats against them , due to her “ magic eyes ” ( which are actually a pair of oversized child sunglasses which , of course , she won ’ t let anyone else touch ) . Layout . On the road to Black Mountain , there is an overturned satellite dish that is used as a makeshift camp . It contains several trunks , two of which contain several hundred . There is also a transceiver where you can pass a 75 Speech check to get Tabitha to declare death to all ' Dumb - Dumbs ' , after which the transceiver will stop working . When entering the radio facility via the road , the closest building to the player is the prison building . Inside there will be an imprisoned ghoul mechanic named Raul Tejada who is also a potential companion . As the door to his room is locked , the player must either have a Science skill of 100 to hack the nearby terminal , a key to open the door or by accessing the second terminal near the building ' s entrance and reading Entry 6 . This gives the courier the password , which is 123456789 , to unlock the door without hacking the terminal . The storage building is located between the prison building and the broadcast building , and it contains several random items , a Nuka - Cola vending machine , locked chests , a note written by Tabitha and a broken Mister Handy robot by the name of Rhonda ( requires 60 Science to fix ) . The broadcast building is at the far end of the property and is identifiable from the single satellite dish on the roof . The building is two floors high and has two doors on the ground floor , one of which is inaccessible from the outside . Once entering the building , the other door can be accessed , it leads to a staircase which then leads to Tabitha ' s room . Tabitha ' s room key is needed in order to access her room , it is located underneath the staircase . Appearances . Black Mountain appears only in " " .