Actually that one is taller than a few of the others. The White Springs dish is only about 4 or 5 inches from the ground. I don't know why he put such short poles in.
The only thing I can imagine is that he was using left over scrap poles they cut off when they built our fence. He never was much on buying anything new.
(the one I just put in was already short, just about waist high to me. Too short for a fence post, must have been scrap.)
My dad is supposed to come by later and bring some gadget to test my plugs with.
He said my house is only a 2 wire house because it was built in the 50's and doesn't have a separate ground wire like modern house do. And all the other houses around here were all built at the same time, we call them cookie cutter houses. My dad said that someone else on the cable TV may have bad wires and is sending electricity back up the wire to the pole where there's a thing that splits it to four houses at a time and that may be where it's coming from if it was shocking me when I was touching the wire before it came into my house.
He said it could be that or any number of a lot of other different things so he'll see what he can figure out.
The house has original wires but most of the switches and outlets have been replaced and the breakers outside have been rewired a few times after hurricanes and storms damaged stuff. It was inspected by the city just a few months ago.
I've avoided the problem by not touching wires.
(well I try not to...)
